OCTOBER ~, 1925.

THE CONDUCT OF LIFE.
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Shakespear, combined, perhaps, more
than any man that ever lived. thorough
knowledge of the world, with great poet
ical genius Many passages from his works
may be cited to verify this opinion-but the
extract which follows is sufficient poot of
the assertion. This quotation from Hamlet,
might be written in the pocket-book of ey-
cry young man, just entering the world, and
be occasionally referred to, with advantage.
There is no condition of life to which the
counsel will not apply, and almost every
person may be confidently appealed to, III
some one instance or another, for its just
ness and truth. 1t is the advice of father
to a son setting OUT on his travels:


"Givc thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioncd thought his act
Be thoa familiar, but by no means vulgar
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks Of steel,
But do Mt duh Thy palm with entertainment
OF each new -atchd, untlcdgcd conlradc.
Beware Of entrance to q quarrel being i'll,
Bear it. that the oppose may beware OF thee.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each mans ccnstire, but reserve thy judg-


nent.


Neither borrower nor lendcrbe,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of hsbantliy.
This, above ALTO thine own self be true,
And il must follow, as the night the day,
Thou carst not then be false to any other man. =