WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 50, 27 February 1915, Page 19

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.—Rusto. Look at the end of work, contrast Ihe petty done, the undone vast. —R. Browning. No amount of error, no bitterness of prejudice, no vested interest in falsehood, can resist the determined conviction of a single soul Only believe a truth strongly enough to hold it through good report and ill report, and at last tie great world of half-believers comee around to you.—James Freeman Clarke. Just to give up and mist All to a fate unknown, Plodding alone life's road In the dust. Bounded by walls of stone; Never to have a heart at peace; Never to see when care will cease; Just to be stll! when sorrows fall:— This is ihe bitterest lesson of all. —Henry van Dyke. .Sever let yourself think that it i≤ too late -to learn. Keep on adding to your knowledge of life even until you reach the hour of death. Then learn to die in peace.—Traralated from aphorisms by ITrau Dohm. I believe that -work ifl work wherever we find it, but that work with Nature is more inspiring than work with the most intricate machinery. I believe that the dignity of labour depends not on what you do, but how you do it; that opportunity comes to a boy on the farm as often as to a boy in the city; that life ifi larger, and freer, and happier on the farm than in the town; that my success depends not upon my location, but upon what I actually do—not upon hick, but upon pluck. I believe m working when you work and playing when you plev, and in giving and demanding a square deal in every act of life.— Edwin Osgood Grover. SFfcafc p»a of life can man desire to Strife and on-worthy deeds the senate yields, At home black cares are seated on your bed, , . ~ And never-ending labour taunts the fielde. , . . Terrors and tempests rule the boisterous main. The wealthy travellers fears and dangers But crowds of Hie the needy must sustain, Hunger and toil and insolence and shame If married, cares corrode the marriage state. If single, joyous gloom is all thy tee; The father.' plagues—the childless, sorrows wait: Tolly's in youth, in age, new infancy. _ The only choice of wishes life can give Is ne'er to have been born, or then have ceased to live. —iPosidippus. WHY BABY CANNOT SPEAK. "Why cannot baby speak?" asked a child of her mother. " Receiving the vaguest of answers, she puzzled over the problem alone, and, after awhile, triumphed in her discovery. "I know/ ehe said. "The things she saw in God's house, where she came from, are so won dprful that she cannot epeak about thorn. She has to be quiet until she haf fnrsotten." Commenting upon this, Rev W.~Y. Fulilerton says:—'"Whatever mis take there may be in the facta of tfhi* abatement, there was no mistake in th< instinct which saw in the little chile •Bβ neaj to God."