It is surely worth while, then, considering whether the enjoyment of
health and happiness is not worth a little study and a little sacrifice
of the vain and imaginary pleasures of the world. There is no doubt that
some amount of restraint and some power of self-control are requisite to
ensure moderation. But the disdain of many pleasures is a chief part of
what is commonly called wisdom.
It is with waking and sleeping, with talking and walking, with eating
and drinking, with toil and labour, with all the acts of life, that
moderation or obedience to the laws of Nature requires some little
sacrifice in their observance; but it is quite certain that without this
obedience there is neither health nor happiness nor longevity.
SONNET.
Who said that there were slaves? There may be men
In bondage, bought or sold: there are no slaves
Whilst God looks down, whilst Christ's most pure blood laves
The black man's sins; whilst within angel ken
He bears his load and drags his iron chain.
The slaves are they whom, on His Judgment Day,
God shall renounce for aye and cast away.
Pages:
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96