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Rh will go far towards preventing the reverses that so frequently overtake us in this life; for the modes of living with which we start, usually become habits with us. If these are extravagant, it will be a difficult matter ever afterwards to overcome them entirely; but if they are prudent and economical, they will not only save us from going beyond our means in the outset, but prove a guaranty of our success in the future.

would have been an easy matter to have said much more than we have said on each of the topics discussed in this book, and to have introduced others. But if, in matters of primary interest, we have correct views, these will guide us in all things subordinate. Right thinking, as we stated in the outset, is the basis of all right action; and it is therefore much better to learn to think right than to burden the memory with modes of action in which no principle of right is clearly perceived.