THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY.
The most honourable calling is to serve tho public, and to be useful to many. -1
Of any worthy process of self-culture solitude is one of the essential conditions. Only in solitude can a man nnd and commune with himself.
Tho one who faces the world cheerfully, putting each day behind his back as he finishes it, and starting afresh, will" in the long run accomplish something with his life.
Mysticism.—A word expressing the deep-seated belief tbat we possess fountains of knowledge apart from all the acquisitions of the senses; that there are certain states of mind, certain flashes of moral and intellectual illumi-: nation, which cannot be accounted for by any play-pr combination of;our ordinary fatitilties. —Lecky. An..^acquaintance is someone, you know 1;" -Xl friend^; someone who knows you, . . , •-._"';- Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes by keeping themselves . always in show, like the statues in a public place.—Montaigne.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8452, 21 August 1911, Page 6
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