SAYINGS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7813, 4 June 1909, Page 1

SAYINGS.

The world has always been making progress. The universal law of "humanity is advancement. Everyone .who wills to attain to the rest of contemplation must first diligently lead a lite of labour. Courage consists not m hazarding without fear, but m being resolutely minded m a just cause. —Plutarch. To show a more excellent way is ia better plan lor correcting faults than fault-finding and criticism. —Helps. "The man Avho does what he pleases is seldom pleased with what he does.?' —"The "Waters of Jordan," by H. A. Vachell. Dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—Benjamin Franklin. • All the best and most beautiful flowers of character and thought seem to spring up m the track of suffering.—A. C. Benson. Nothing more unqualifies a man to act; with prudence than a, misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. —Swift.. A man's nature runs either to herbs ,or.weeds ; therefore let him seasonably ftid^Ss:.^^ 6 and; destroy the other. — Bacon. The praises of men and all that gold can give, arc not worthy to be named against godliness and calm contentment. —Tupper. Wo must never judge of the quality of teaching by the quality of the teacher, or allow the spots to shut out the sun. —Lord Acton. The man without a puspose is like a ship without a rudder —a waif, a nothing, a no-man. Have a purposo m life, have a purpose.—Carlyle. j The industrial world is undergoing the most momentous change m history. Monopolies have extinguished free competition.—Mr Andrew Carnegie. : People who are poor m pocket and weak m intellect are always anxious as to their future, and their anxiety tends to keep them down.—The Bishop of Croydon. Who are the English and what are the English ? They are Saxons, who love the land, who love their liberty, and whose solo claim to genius is their common sense.—Scribner's Magazine. Remember the test of faith is faithfulness. -Have we m us the stuff that will not weary or falter, that will make us stand a sleepless sentinel at the post till relief conies ? —Hugh Black. Be assured those will be thy worst enemies not to whom thou 'has done evil, but who have done evil to thee; And. those will be thy best friends; not to whom thou. hast done good, but who have done good to thee.—Lavater. Dr. Svcn Hedin tells us that lie tried to drive: a flock of sheep, and that he found he had no gift for driving sheep. If he had been m the profession of politics, he would have found that those gifts were sorely needed. —Lord Morley of Blackburn. Heading aloud as a mere physical exercise is of great importance and efficacy. Cicero, m some of his letters, speaks of curing himself of troublesome and alarming weakness by reading aloud for some hours every day. Certain temperaments- are influenced by it, as actors are affected by their own playing. It is said of Madame Testa that.she would come home from the opera and sit m a passion of tears at the recollection of what she had been acting. ■' It was entirely unaffected.: She would say she knew it to be idle, but that she "could not get the thing out of her head." i It would have seemed strange to j Virgil, stranger still to Dante, to sup-! pose that there could be any antagonism or incompatibility between the scientific and the artistic mind. Poe;try was the golden voice that alone properly declare the highest and rarest perceptions of the brain ; and if man's thought could penetrate the secrets of nature, trace the origins of ;being, or toll the stars, it was the 'poetic spirit that could best apprehend the marvel. That the name of science, applied to a region of speculation and discovery; should come to be- regarded as a positive sign of the exclusion, for its purposes, of the name of poetry, would have seemed the most perverse injustice to these high titles. , It would have seemed an implication that one or the other,, poetry or science, was somehow false or inferior, whereas they really together represented truth at its most exquisite, and the peculiar privilege of each was to join hands with the other on equal terms. — Times.