The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-09
DUMAS GOLDEN RULES.
The Authors Prescription fO
HaaIfn. Wealth and Wisdom.

s.Walk two hours every day; sleep
seven hours every night; go TO bed al
(, ways alone, if you need to sleep; get up
as soon as you wake; work as soon as
/ you get up: eat only when you are hun
cry, and drink only when you are thirs-
| ty. and eat and drink always slowly" :"
| says Alexander Dumas fills in the Ell
garo.''
| Never speak except when it is neces-
| sary and never say more than half of
what you think. Never write anything
that you cannot sign. and never do any
get that others will count upon you, and
| that you must never count upon them.
| Value money at its real worth neither
more nor less. 1t is a good servant but
| a bad master.
Never attempt to produce anything
without thorough understanding of
| that which you undertake, and destroy
as little as possible. Pardon everybody
| beforehand. to be on the safe side. Do
not despi5e men; do not hate them, and
| do not laugh at them beyond measure.
/ Pity them.
| Think of death every morning when
you you see the light and every evening on
| the approach of darkness. When your
| sufferings are great look your grief in
| the face; it will console you itself and
teach you something. Try to be simple,
| before denying God wait until somebody
| proves to you that He does not exist.
For a man and for woman there is
a succession of duties to, be fulfilled
| which enables them to look always
| ahead and to become accustomed to the
absence Of the objects of their most
| too a1ickly if the first child was not
| able to survive the death of the first
| mother.
"Misfortunes and trials attack noble
souls without hurting them. They are
4 like the rocks Of granite. that the sea
l faYlcVintr & Troy limo
| them, while it is merely washing them,
So o.,, that they reappear Gso o again in the sun
than ever. Adversity emTbellishes those
that it cannot cast down. BY the law OF
| nature man should have many chill
dren. He should raise them well, 50
love them SO that they may be happy.
| To get married when man is young
class, a good, honest girl; to love her
| with all his heart and SOUL and to make
| her a reliable companion and a prolific
/ mother; to work ITO raise shis childfen,
/ and to leave them when dying the exam
pie of his lfe-that is true meaning and
object of life; the rest is only error,
in truth. the average man is only
above ambient humanity on one single
plane. virtue; and, as there can be. no
virtue without humanity. those alone
have the right to consider themselves the
| superiors of others to whom the knoW1-
| edge that they are, srperior is denied.
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called genious, is Involuntary. It is not
the result of the efforts Of man: it is,
like beauty, the gift of God. That is
| why it is of secondary order, and poster
ity will only remember it for its virtue,
i it's sincerity and its communion in uni
versal progress. Glory for glory's sake
is a shameful speculation.
'sThe men who rejoice in their. celeb
rity are simpletous; the men who are
Ses ef e & one gefGu fg spa shst ffss IS especially
beautiful and great and pure affsetisns f,e
| which they afford has passed away,
there remains the happiness of their rec
ollection.
Very often an unexpected grief or an
| unmerited misfortune gives to man an
i energy and q, perseverance which he
4 could never find in happiness. And af-
ter such trials q. man often becomes SUI
I perior who would have remained simple
4 and vulgar if he had always been happy.
IsTIe who is without energy when young
will never have it. Grit is not a Winter
frlit; 1t never grows In the snow.
/ zone NAV expect everything from a
4 man of energy to whom misfortune has
i given courage and ambition"