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to them. The best
way is to take care
of your health and
cultivate an habitual
evenness so far as
possible of temper &
spirits. Your exceeding-
ly active nervous
system will make this
both difficult and necessary
Blues will not depart
at your command, but
you can by proper contrivance
divert your attention from
them while they last and
thus avoid their impressing
a gloomy habit upon you.
They are generally irregularly
intermittent, and alternate
with seasons of excessive
good spirits: both of them
without adequate reasons

to them. The best
way is to take care
of your health and
cultivate an habitual
evenness so far as
possible of temper &
spirits. Your exceeding-
ly active nervous
system will make this
both difficult and necessary
Blues will not depart
at your command, but
you can by proper contrivance[?]
divert your attention from
them while they last and
thus avoid their impressing
a gloomy habit upon you.
They are generally irregularly
intermittent, and alternate
with seasons of excessive
good spirits: both of them
without adequate reasons