This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...cannot be happy. Disposition comes in for consideration in the third place, and worldly circumstances in the fourth, or perhaps still lower in the scale. I might speak of another thing, requisite to happiness in the highest degree, but I will not, now and heroin the consideration of worldly circumstances, be wise. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...cannot be happy. Disposition comes in for consideration in the third place, and worldly circumstances in the fourth, or perhaps still lower in the scale. I might speak of another thing, requisite to happiness in the highest degree, but I will not, now and heroin the consideration of worldly circumstances, be wise. Remember that if your lover be intelligent, healthy, the master of a business or a profession, he stands many more chances to die in the possession of wealth or oompetence than he would if rich now, and without a settled business and settled purposes. I have watched the results of many matches, and I have seen ten which started with a fortune to be acquired, turn out well in a worldly point of view, where I have seen one result happily, starting with the fortune made. If a young man is honorable, intelligent, industrious, and manly in every respect, and you love him, marry him. There is no power under heaven that has a moral right to stand between you and your happiness. Many a poor girl who married for money now pines in poverty, and covets the position of girls whose wiser choice she once contemned. I speak in this way for two reasons. The first is, that it is not only your right but your duty to consider whether a life of certain poverty will be compensated by a life of association with the man you love. The second is, that when you take this matter into consideration you should make your judgment upon a sound basis. Wealth in hand, without business habits, business tastes, and business interests, is the most unreliable thing in the world. It may even spoil a good lover, and in time transform him into a loafer or a sot. On the contrary, good business habits, good character, enterprise, ambition--all these combined--are almost sure to secure com...
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