Do not promise to do things which depend more
on events than on yourself. Do not promise to love your future wife
always. She may prove unworthy of it. You may prove incapable of it.
INWARDLY MAKE UP YOUR MIND
to ennoble yourself so that your affections will solidify. The
companionship of a woman will do much to help you. Promise little by
word of mouth--everything by actions. Then, as your days come and go,
your character constantly comes more fully into the light, and that
light is one of broad, pleasant, humanly love. Your wife will be sure to
live happily, for you have built within her mind no extravagant
expectations.
LOOK AT A CIRCUS POSTER!
See the absurd and ridiculous promises made upon it! Why do they dare so
to humbug the people? Because, in no other way could they get people to
ride ten or twelve miles through a summer drouth to hand over their
money to the man who is anxious to get it! Here is a man in a chariot,
with tigers plunging under his rein like the rays from the sun.
[Illustration: COURTSHIP.
"New hope may bloom, and days may come.
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