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ful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home 
in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in 
a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, “Lay. it not too 
much to heart.” Let them adoptthe maxim, “Better luck next 
time;” and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck 
for themselves. 
And by the successful, and unsuccessful, let it be remem¬ 
bered, that while occasions like the present, bring their sober 
and durable benefits, the exultations and mortifications of them 
are but temporary ; that the victor will soon be vanquished, if 
he relax in his exertion; and that the vanquished this year, 
may be victor the next, in spite of all competition. 
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to 
invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be 
true and appropriate in all times and situations. They pre¬ 
sented him the words, u And this , too , shall pass aivay. : 
How much it expresses ! How chastening in the hour of pride ! 
How consoling in the depths of affliction ! “And this, too, 
shall pass away.” And yet, let us hope, it is not quite true. 
Let us hope, rather, that by the best cultivation of the physi¬ 
cal world, beneath and around us, and the intellectual and 
moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social, 
and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be 
onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall 
not pass away. 
