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The Spring-Time of Life; Or, Advice to Youth
The SpringTime of Life Or Advice to Youth Author:David Magie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: American Tract Society Subjects: Young men Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Coming of Age Juvenile Fiction / Religious / Christian Religion / Christian Lif... more »e / General Self-Help / General 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTE] C O M P A N T 1 T S I Some one remarked to "Wesley, as he was enterin; course, " You must either make them." This is true not good for man to be alo of Paradise was not deer Adam had a companion t his labors, and share with '. This is a law of our nat all, but felt with most : Young people are formed companionship. It would ed to immure them in a just in proportion to the : their feelings fasten upon t their friends, will be the pc to be either a blessing oScarcely anything else is so pregnant of weal or woe. Solomon has said, " He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." You will have associates, and you will feel their influence. The link is mysterious which binds human beings together, so that the heart of one answers to the heart of another, like the return of an echo; but such a link exists. There seems to be a sort of welding process, by which the feelings and principles of two individuals, before entire strangers, are soon reduced to a complete identity. One catches the spirit, and copies the manner of the other, so that in a short time the same character belongs to both. Wax does not more certainly retain the figure of the seal, than does the mind retain the impression produced by intercourse and association. The influence is often silent and unperce...« less