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[[note]] No: 143. [[/note]] It is certain that to enjoy life and Health as a constant feast, we should not think pleasure necessary; but, if possible, to arrive at an equality of mind. It is as mean to be overjoyed upon occasions of good-fortunate, as to be dejected in circumstances of distress. Laughter in one condition, is as unmanly as weeping in the other. We should not form our minds to expect transport on every occasion, but know how to make enjoyment to be out of pain. Ambition, envy, vagrant desire, or impertinent mirth will take up our minds, without we can possess ourselves in that sobriety of heart which is above all pleasures, and can be felt much better than described. But the ready way, I believe, to the right enjoyment of Life, is by prospect towards another to have but a very mean opinion of it. A great Author has set this in an excellent light in the following manner. ,, For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? ,, We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, worry ,, or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns. ,,We spend the day in trifles, and when the night comes we throw ourselves ,, into the bed of folly, amongst dreams and broken thoughts and wild imaginations. ,, Our reason lies asleep by us, and we are for the time as arrant ,, brutes as those that sleep in the stalls or in the field. Are not the
