LESSONS FOR YOUNG PERSONS. PART I. PIECES IN PROSE. CHAPTER I. SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS. SECTION 1. BE good, and you will be happy. Our greatest enemies are they who persuade us to do ill. We must not practise what we blame in other people. To have good and kind parents, is a great blessing. Time passes on pleasantly, when we are well and diligently employed. Clean clothes, wholesome food, and sweet rest, are the rewards of honest industry. We ought never to tell a lie, even in jest. It is very mean to suffer other persons to be blamed, or punished, for the wrong which we ourselves have done. It is almost impossible to continue wicked, if we love good people, and keep company with them, When you are told of a fault, endeavour to avoid it, another time. When you have learned any thing useful, try to remember it. By behaving well, you will certainly, sooner or later, gain the esteem and love of all who know you. We ought never to do a wrong action, to please, or serve, any body. Do not meddle with other people's business, unless you think that you can do them some service, SECTION 2. OUR best friends are they who tell us of our faults; and teach us how to amend them, The more our parents, and friends, and teachers, love us; the more attentive they will be to reprove us for our faults. Be thankful to those who give you good advice; and endeavour to follow it. Never be idle you may always find something or other, that is useful and proper to be done. Be attentive to what you are about; and take pains to do it well: nothing can be done well, without attention, and pains. A cheerful and contented mind is a great blessing: without it, nothing in this world can make us happy. Often reflect on the kindnesses which you have received; and be grateful for them. Let us try to be good and happy ourselves; and do all we can to make other people so, Never amuse yourselves with giving pain to any body; not even to poor, dumb creatures. A lie is troublesome; and often needs a great many more to prevent its being found out. People are led on, by little and little, to do wrong : no one becomes very wicked on a sudden. If you wish to be honest and good, beware of temptation; do not depend too much upon yourselves; and remember that it is easier to do right at first, than at last. We should not always do just what we like ourselves we should consider what other people like; and what we ought to do, to serve and please them, SECTION 3. HONESTY is the best policy. They who steal, will come to shame. Idleness is the parent of vice and misery. A small beginning, with industry and thrift, will make an estate.-Rome was not built in a day. Light gains, and frequent, make a heavy purse, Enough is as good as a feast. Home is home, be it ever so homely. Good words cost nothing.-A good word is as soon said as a bad one. Forgive and forget.-Bear and forbear. Look before you leap.-Think before you speak. Of two evils choose the least. A word to the wise is sufficient for them. Live and improve learn. Never say, you are too old to Where there is a will, there is a way. There is no true friendship with the wicked. It is better to suffer a great evil, than to do a little one. Ill gotten goods never prosper. Be just before you are generous. Hope the best; prepare for the worst: What cannot be mended, or prevented, must be endured. Never complain of summer's heat, or winter's cold but gently take all that ungently comes. No pains, no gains.-No cross, no crown. No rose without a thorn.-No joy, in this world, without alloy. In the morning, think on what you have to do in the day; and at night, think on what you have done. The path of duty is the path of safety and of honour. If every person would mend one, we should all be mended. Ill habits are more easily conquered "to-day than to-morrow. Begin and end every day with God. He who serves God, has the best master in the world, |