Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1875-08-05
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The Secret of Happiness.


"oh try and be happy, You may if you
Find some pleasure In life to DER bal
ance the III,
There jare very few evils if we'll under.
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The real happiness of.life does not cons
sist in great events, in being always sail
ing upon the sea Of excitement. 1t is the
little continually recurring every day af.
fairs OF our existence that makes up the
sum of enjoyment. If we learn to appre>
ciate little pleasures, to make the most
and the best of the small common events
stirring around us, and determine to ex-
tract all we can of beauty and goodness
from them, we shall find our lives full TO
over flowing with the bliss of severe and
quiet happiness. Sunny spots will be
scattered all along our pathway, and dull.
ness, gloom and dependency will
rarely be our visitors and companions,
and when they do obtrude themselves,
their stay will be short and temporary,
because we shall be 80 ready to see the
little pleasures here and there all about
US waiting for our grasp. The green and
beautiful earth, the brightly blooming
flowers, the singing birds, the ripening
fruits are things of bliss and beauty, and
are deserving of our greatest admiration
and most careful study and attention.
The more we cultivate this love of the
beautiful, this sympathy with natures
living, growing things, the more our af,
fection for them will increase, aud the
more we thall enjoy contact with them.
1t is mark of true refinement in any
one, to love these simple things, and to
see in them sources Of sincere pleasure
and enjoyment. You will rarely if ever
find such worshipper at the shrine of
nature to be bad, cruel or base person
or morose, gloomy or unhappy. There is
so much to learn about the simplest weed
that grows, the tiniest insect that wings
its fight through the airl The very
rocks beneath our feet have marvelously
interesting history to unfold to those who
take real pleasure in listening to their
revealments. How mean petty seems
the strifes and contentious chickering's
and disputes of the unrefned and the ig>
norant when we think of all there is
around and about us to be seen, enjoyed,
loved and learned. With such numerous
sources of present pleasure on every hand
who has any reed to travel to Europe,
Rome, Italy, California or the moon, to
find graat excitement and great enjoy.
meutI 1t is we'll enough for us to widen
out our lives by seeing whrt we can of
the world and learning the manners and
customs of its various nations, if it be ex>
pedient for us to do; but if our lot be cast
in some humble home and circumstances
COMPEL us to daily labor, it need not de-
prive us Of one iota of the great sum of
our joys and blisses. If we cannot have
big pleasures, let us cultivate habit of
enjoying little thing and be content that
We have SO much that is happifying and
pleasing.
This faculty once acquired, we shall
lind that let cur lot be what and where it
may,our days will be every one full to the
brim ofjoyful, happy, instructive, pleas
ant and beautiful things.
slow much there is that bea utiful, =
In this fair world of ours.
The very dew Of early spring .
The Sweetly blooming flowers.
The brook that dances In the light.
The birds that carol free 7,t
An object beautiful and bright
That everywhere We see."
Il. D. S.
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