WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 145, 19 June 1915, Page 21

WORDS OF THE WISE.

I Forgiveness Is better than revenge.— . itta.u!. I I Be wise worldly, but no: wordly wise.— Quarles. I 1 I A man pom.limes lias to be pretty wtsi tv realise his own folly. God never sende'h mouths hut he sendeth incut.- Ill 'J--00-. I Was ever feather .so lightly blown to ana fro a. this luulutudc?—Shakespeare. i Carry the radiance of your soul in your face; let the w.r.d have the benefit of IL— : l-'ux. There are two forms of discontent —one laborious, the other indolent and coniplala--Ins. —liu.kln. We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We hai. bard work to do, and loads to 1 lift. Shun i."t the struggle; face It; 'tis God's < fe-ifu | In order nut lo become distrusted with life, there Is nothing like not expecting from it 100 much.—Edm. Scberer. | What Is called knowledge of the world is | the art. of steering skilfully amongst the 'rocks of convention.—H. Mellhac. I Look witliin. Within Is the fountain , flood, and it will ever bubble up If thou jbut ever dig.—Marcus Aurclius. Happiness is a perfume you cannot poor on others without getting a few crops yourself. There's no argument eoual to a happy smile. A man that hath no virtue lv himself ever envioth vlrtne In others, for men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon others' evil: and who wantest tbe one will prey upon tbe other.—Bacon We are apt to underrate the moral quality of a man's regular vocation, his daily task, his business, to look somewhere apart from this for his opportunity for '■ achieving character aDd doing good. But 1 there ia nothins else that is so determinative of a man's character, nothing else that so furnishes hands for his beneficence nnd feet to -un his errands of good-will.— John W. Cbadwlck. i Salvation is not the petty conception of ' personal safety from some far-off doom. H is the saving of the whole man; lt '.* the domination of the higher nature over the lower: It Is the education of the spiritual, the development, the evolution of the God In us, that divine spark In all humanity that can never be wholly extinguished—William D. Little. The study of truth Is perpetually joined with tlie leve of virtue, for there is no ! virtue ' nich derives not Its original from I truth, as, on the contrary, there is nr, vk-e which lias not its beginning from a lie. Truth Is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement or all societies.— | C_sautx>r_