. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . ertson of Brighton says, agreat deal to strengthen with the sense of duty done, self-control, and power. Besides you cannot calculate how muchcorroding rust is kept off, how much of disconsolate, dull de-spondency is hindered. Daily use is not the jewellers mer-curial polish, but it will keep your little silver pencil fromtarnishing. Family life, says Sainte-Beuve, may be full of thornsand cares; but they are fruitful: all others are dry again : If a mans home at a certain period of life doesnot contain children, it wi
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . ertson of Brighton says, agreat deal to strengthen with the sense of duty done, self-control, and power. Besides you cannot calculate how muchcorroding rust is kept off, how much of disconsolate, dull de-spondency is hindered. Daily use is not the jewellers mer-curial polish, but it will keep your little silver pencil fromtarnishing. Family life, says Sainte-Beuve, may be full of thornsand cares; but they are fruitful: all others are dry again : If a mans home at a certain period of life doesnot contain children, it will probably be found filled with folliesor with vices. Even if it were a misfortune to be married, which weemphatically deny, has not the old Roman moralist taught usthat, to escape misfortune is to want instruction, and that tolive at ease is to live in ignorance ? Misfortune to b6 married*Rather not. Life with all it yields of joy and woeAnd hope and fear . , Is just our chance o the prize of the learning love—How love might be, haih been indeed, and CHAPTER VIIL BEING MARRIED. If ever one is to pray—if ever one is to feel grave and anxious—if everone is to shrink from vain show and vain babble, surely it is just on theoccasion of two human beings binding themselves to one another, for betterand for worse till death part them,—Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyk. N elderly unmarried lady of Scotland, afterreading aloud to her two sisters, also unmarried,the births, marriages, and deaths in the ladiescorner of a newspaper, thus moralized : Weel,wecl, these are solemn events—death andmarriage ; but ye ken tlieyre what we must all come to. YX\, Miss Jeanny, but ye have been lang spared ! was therejily of the youngest sister. Those who in our thoughts wererei^resented as being only in prospect of marriage are sparedno longer. They have now come to what they had to come- to—a day so full of gladness, and so full of pain —a day only
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