WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 188, 8 August 1914, Page 15

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Ambition to merit praise fortifies our virtue.— Rochefoucauld. Sweet are tire thoughts that -saTOur of content.—Greene. The fruit of great tension of «<rol ie an infinite charity.—Kenan. Books are the hearts of men in the hands of men.—Maiunoud ol Shayer. .We triumph without glory when we conquer without dangcr.-Corneillc Wfov not eeire "* P leasnrc at oncct How 'often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation !-Jane Austen. Knowledge i> of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where ■we can find information upon it.—BoswclL little minds are toe much hurt by little thrngß; great minds are quite conariouß of them, and deepiee them.— La Rochefoucauld. Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the world; it throws away that which is invaluable in respect of ite present use, and irreparable when it is pact being, to be recovered .by no power of art or nature.—.Jeremy Taylor. The best part of one'e life is the performance of his daily duties. All higher motives, ideas, conceptions, sentiments, in a man are of no account, if they do not «omfi forward to strengthen him for the .better discharge of tihe duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.—Henry Ward Beecher. Believe, then, that neither feeble health, nor cramping poverty, nor crushing sorrow, nor accomplished sin, nor evil habits, need paralyse the aspirations of your essential manhood, nor quench its immortality. Put forth yoirr hand, my brother, and the serpent shall become a rod!— Dr. Charles F. Aked. Hold sorrow till its more selfish aspect passes: tiH it turns its rcKgious side to you: till time and experience and faith do their work; till you feel not its gloom but ita glory; not its cross, but it.* crown. Do not, through any device, lose *ts sanctifying influence, the greatest Joss the soul can meet.— J. F. W. Ware. If is true that love cannot h< , . forced, 'that it; cannot be -made to order, that we cannot love because ive ought or even because we want. Bu"t we can bring ourselves into the. presence of the lovable: we can enter into friendship through tin , door of disi/iplcship: Wα can Jcarn love through service.—Hugh Black.