Every day thus wasted now will in future cause you years
of unavailing regret.
FOOTNOTES:
[56] Matt. v. 48.
[57] Sir Philip Sidney.
[58] Eph. iv. 26.
[59] Ex. xx. 12.
[60] Eph. v. 33.
[61] Isa. xxxii. 17.
[62]
_Maria_. How can we love?--
_Giovanna_ (interrupting). Mainly, by hearing none
Decry the object, then by cherishing
The good we see in it, and overlooking
What is less pleasant in the paths of life.
All have some virtue if we leave it them
In peace and quiet, all may lose some part
By sifting too minutely good and bad.
The tenderer and the timider of creatures
Often desert the brood that has been handled,
Or turned about, or indiscreetly looked at.
The slightest touches, touching constantly,
Irritate and inflame.
LANDOR'S _Giovanna and Andrea_.
[63] Miss Edgeworth says that proverbs are vulgar because they are
common sense.
[64] Emerson.
LETTER VII.
ECONOMY.
Perhaps there is no lesson that needs to be more watchfully and
continually impressed on the young and generous heart than the difficult
one of economy.
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