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that has hands fit for the sledge cannot make watches nor drill needles. He that is a poet, sensitive and impressible, cannot be competent to the sudden strategem and dangerous reckoning of the field of battle. He that is impressible must be impressed,—he must both suffer and enjoy with more intensity than he that is full of the sturdy confidence of vigorous life.

This compensation shows itself in all business, and makes the proverbs of society. There is a sure watch on all benefits, that no man shall take a good thing without an evil thing. Every thing has a twin brother, an equivalent, a price. Nothing can be stolen: cash is the word, and no trust. Would you buy health?—labor and temperance are the price. Will you have a spree?—blues, nervousness, and moroseness. And these prices are low. It is easier to earn money than to steal and conceal it. Few men ever get rich by stealing or by gambling; or if they do, gold depreciates in their hands. The cost makes the value, in the estimate of the soul. Working men try to save their money; but inherited or stolen fortunes are considered scarcely worth saving. There is no good without sacrifice to pay for it. You can get only your money's worth in the end. Hire a boy to do a man's business; he will make up his wages in the spoiling of your tools. Though he may do well for a while, some accident will revenge your penuriousness. Is stolen fruit the sweetest? It needs to be, for the way of the transgressor is hard. Can the tough head bear the hard blows? It well may, for it is sure to get them. The solid tooth