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are indicative of an inchoate
existence, and an untried pos-
-sibility, and and an inexperi-
-enced faculty. As long as we
are beings of yesterday, with few at-
-tainments, with powers, yet undeveloped,
with comparatively no past by which to interpret
life, we can have few satisfactions, and
shall find almost no stimulus, but in our as-
-pirations. We may, therefore, regard our
natural unrest in youth, our frequent failures
and disappointments, and our multi-
-plied dissatisfactions, as means of in-
-struction, measures of progress, &