Eastern times., 1855-04-12
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ILake the Best Of Everything.


An important lesson to learn, and the earlier
In life it is learned the better, is 10 make the
best Of eUeryhing. AS the old adage says,
there is no use in crying over split milk. -
Misfortunes that have already happened can
not be prevented and, therefore, the wise
man, instead of wasting his time in regrets,
will set himself to work TO recover his losses.
The mistakes and folies of the past may teach
US to be more cautious for the future but
they should never be allowed to paralyze our
enerries surrender Ia weak reninIn0s
A millionaire of this city tells the story that,
at one period eaty in his career, he had got
almost 10 the verge of bankruptcy but, ,
says he, { ploughed deep keel and kept my
own counsel ; and by these means he soon re-
covered Had this man given way to despair,
had he set down 10 bewal his apparently i'm
pending ruin, he might now have been old and
poor, instead of capitalist in leading posi-
tion. He adds that his characteristic was that
through life, in all circumstances, he did the
best that he could, whatever that was, con-
suming no time in useless regrets over bad
speculatons.
The rule holds good, not only in mercantile
affairs, but in the whole conduct of life The
man, who is born TO Indifferent circumstances,
will never rise, if, abandoning himself to envy
of those more blessed by fortune, he goes
about sullenly complaining, instead Of endeav-
oring to use to the best of his ability what few
advantages he has. The patriot, deploring
the decline of public and private morals, will
never succeed in reforming the commonwealth.
if he stickes for Visionary or impracticable
measures, rejecting those more moderate ones
which are really attainabe The friend will
soon have no intimates at all, IT., making no
allowance fo- the infrmities of human nature,
ha judges too harshly the conduct of his ac-
quaintances. Many matrimonial separation
might be avoided, if husband and wife, instead
of taking offence at each other at slight prov
ocation, would dwell rather on the good traits
their partner displays. There are not a few
statesmen, now living in retirement, who
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serving the public, if they had understood,
amid the intrigues and disappointments of pub
lie life, how TO make the best of everything
Nations, as well as individuals, should cher
ish this principle. The European revolutions
of 1918 would not have ended so disastrousv
for liberty if the people had understood how to
make more of the advantages they secured at
first The ultimate triumph of the monarchs
is to be attributed chiefly to their obeying the
golden maxim, which their subjects had me-
/ elected. of making the best of everything-
When the Emperor of Austria was fugitive :;
when Hungary, Bohemia and Italy we're free,
it would have required nothing but concert
among the people to have established their
rights on a lasting foundation. But they suf-
! fered jealousies of race to arise, allowed them
selves to be attacked IN detail, and even assist
ed the tyrants to subjugate each ether In
stead of making the best of things, they made
the worst, and naturally, we had almost said
deservedly, lost their freedom.
. We never see a man bewailing his i'll for
tune without something Of contempt for his