[12] Ibid.
[13] Wordsworth.
[14] Swinburne.
[15] Symonds.
CHAPTER IX.
THE TROUBLES OF LIFE.
CHAPTER IX.
THE TROUBLES OF LIFE.
We have in life many troubles, and troubles are of many kinds. Some sorrows, alas, are real enough, especially those we bring on ourselves, but others, and by no means the least numerous, are mere ghosts of troubles: if we face them boldly, we find that they have no substance or reality, but are mere creations of our own morbid imagination, and that it is as true now as in the time of David that "Man disquieteth himself in a vain shadow."
Some, indeed, of our troubles are evils, but not real; while others are real, but not evils.