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——— Talents angel bright, Tf wanting worth, are shining instruments In false ambition's hand, to finish faults Illustrious, and give infamy renown. Young,

Man is the creature of interest and ambition.—His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts. He seeks for fame, for fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow men. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffick of affection; and if shipwrecked her case is hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

Washington Irving.

Lord Byron has thus expressed the same idea : Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,

'Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart,

Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart,

And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.

That indescribable