Life is a school.

This world is a house of instruction. It is not a prison nor a penitentiary, nor a palace of ease, nor an amphitheater for games and spectacles: it is a school.

Life, I repeat, is a school. The periods of life are its terms; all human conditions are but its forms; all human employments are its lessons; all its periods - infancy, youth, manhood, and age, have their appropriate tasks in this school.

Families are the primary departments of this moral education; the various circles of society, its advanced stages; kingdoms are its universities; the world is but the material structure, built for the administration of its teachings; and it is lifted up in the heavens, and bourne through its annual circuits, for no end but this.

Life presents lessons in its various pursuits and conditions, in its ordinances and events. Riches and poverty, gaieties and sorrows, marriages and funerals, the ties of life bound or broken, fit and fortunate, or untoward and painful, are all lessons.

They are not appointments, but they are lessons. They are not things that must be, but things that are meant. Life has no rich favorites or poor victims; one event happeneth to all; one end, one design, concerneth, urgeth all.

What then is to be learnt? I answer, a great lesson. What is to be done? A great duty. To be just, to be true, to cherish a divine candor; to make the best of that which seems not well; to pour not vinegar upon the galling chain, but the oil of gentleness and forbearance.

Life is finely attempered, and, at the same time, a very trying school. There are mysteries in it. There are hard lessons to be had in this school.

In short, the whole course of human life is a conflict with difficulties, and, if rightly conducted, a progress in improvement. 

Why are we at school? That we may learn. Why is the lesson hard? That we may rise high on the scale of advancement.

It is never too late to learn. 

Life is a school, the whole of life.

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