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Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women Or, the Happiness of Being Good Betimes
Apples of Gold for Young Men and Women Or the Happiness of Being Good Betimes Author:Thomas Brooks General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. The several evils that mojt properly attend youth. The first evil that most properly attends youth is pride -- pride of heart, pride of apparel, pride of parts. Young men are apt to be proud of health, strength, friends, relations, wit, wealth, wisdom. Two things are very rare: the one is to see a young man humble and watchful, and the other to see an old man contented and cheerful. Bernard saith, that " Pride is the rich man's cousin;" and experience every day speaks out pride to be the young man's cousin. "God," said one, "had three sons: Lucifer, Adam, and Christ. The first aspired to be like God in power, and was therefore thrown down from heaven; the second, to be like Him in knowledge, and therefore deservedly driven out of Eden, when young; the third did altogether imitate and follow Him in His goodness, mercy, and humility, and, by so doing, obtained an everlasting inheritance." Eemember this, young men, and as you would get a paradise, and keep a paradise, get humble, and keep humble. Pride is an evil that puts men uponall manner of evil. Accius, the poet, though he were a dwarf, yet would be pictured tall of stature. Psaphon, a proud Libyan, would needs be a god; and having caught some birds, he taught them to speak and prattle, " The great god Psaphon." Me- crates, a proud physician, wrote thus to king Philip, " Menecrates, a god, to Philip, a king." Proud Simon in Lucian, having got a little wealth, changed his name from Simon to Siraonides, for that there were so many beggars of his kin; and set the house on fire wherein he was born, because nobody should point at it. What...« less