The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-02-02
REAT SALT LAKE CITY. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY .. 1856.

men, Of men In distant countries. aud in
past times The same correspondence
that Is between thirst ID tile stomach and
water IN the spring, exists between the
whole Of man aud the whole Of nature. !. 4
Wise men are not wise at all hours.
and will speak FIVE times from their taste
or their hnmor, 10 once from their reason
The brave workman ftfust replaces the
grace or elegance forfeited; by the merit
Ofthe work done. No matter whether
be makes shoes, or statues, or laws. Ii
IS the privilege Of any human work which
Is well done TO invest the door with d Ger
tain haughtiness. He can. well afford NOT
70 conciliate, whose faithful work will nm;
swer for him. The mechanic at his bench
carries q qniet heart and assured manners,
and deals uneven terms with nicl, Of every
condition. The artist has made. lis pic.
ture so trne, that it disconccrts criticism.
The statue Is so beautiful that il con.
tracts no stain from the market, bnt
makes the market a silent gallery Tor IL
self. .., :..t,. :...:..
An infinite number Of shrewtl men, III
infinite years, have arrived at certain best
and shortest ways OF doing, and this ae-
scunulated skill III arts, cultures, harvest
ings, curings, manufactures, nayieations.
exchanges, constitutes the worth Of our
world to-day. n. ". 4. HI. q M. n
Success consists in close application to
the laws Of the world, and, since those.
laws are intellectual and moral, an intel,
lectual and moral obedience.
Nature arms each man with some fa.4
Guilty which enables him to do easily some
feat impossible to any other, aud thus
makes him necessary to society. This
native determination guides his labor and
his spending. He wants an equipment or
means and tools proper to bis talent.
Aud to save on this point, were to neil-
tralize the special strength aud helpfnlncss
of each mind. Do your work, respecting
the excellence of the work, and not its ac-
ceptableness. This Is SO much economy.
that, rightly read, it Is the sum OF eeopo.
my. Protligacy consists not in spending
years Of time or chests OF money but in.
spending them off the Iine Of Your career.
The crime which bankrupts men and
states, Ii job-@ork--declinihg from your
main design, to serve turn: here or there.
Nothing is beneath you, If it Is in the di:
rection Of yonr life; nothing IS great or
desirable, iii IS of from that. i think
we are entftled here to draw a straight
line, and say, that society eau never pros.
iter, but mast always be bankrupt, until
every man does tbtft which he was created
totlo. q 5,.-.-.ss.ss--
Spend for yohr expense, and rcircncli
the expense which is not yours, Allston,
the painter, was wont. to say, that he
built a plain house, and filed il with plain
furniture, because, he would hold out no
brihe to any to visit him, who had not
similar tastes to his own. -. IS < 4
lii England; the richest country IN the
universe, l was assured by shrewd OBJ
servers, that great lords and ladies had
no more gIi.neas TO give away than other
people; that liberality with money is as
rare and as Immediately famous d virtue
as it is here. =. 81. r.
The true thrift Is always to ascend OH
the higher plane; to invest aud invest,
with kecner avariee, that he may spend in
spiritual creation, and not in augmeuting
animal existence, Nor is the man enriched
in repeating the old experiments Of ami
NAL sensation, per unless through new
powers and ascending pleasures, he knows
himself by the actual experience of high.
or good, to be already on the way to The
highest RaiPk HdtdU Emerson. =; t..