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Clutha Leader, Volume VI, Issue 339, 9 April 1880, Page 3

; Emerson never.packed more sense into a sentence than when he wrote,- " Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."^ Beauty is the mark God sets on virtues Every natural action is graceful. Every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and bystanders to shine. He who travels with his eyes open cannot fail to see that others, as well as himself, have their discomforts and drawbacks, and he will thus be all the more disposed, to meet his own with a brave spirit. : i When a, ypung man has learned to wait, ;he r has mastered, ihe hardest lesson in life. Few truly "learn it, .but he ' who r idoVs; has gained knowledge of the ftindamental ; principles of all success, and need • not fear that all other things necessary u will be added unto him. * : ' -h .v,V. ]T, IT : -The -virtues which, when nothing obstructs an unprejudiced; decision, <vthe world at large. stamps with its approbation are just those which religion -inculcates — active. industry, considerate prudence, unostentatious charity, amiable temper, indexible integrity, high honour, unaffected purity. ■ . * . He who aims high . reaches a higher mark than he who 'aims low. A man does not know himself unless he labours sometimes to ; make, full; proof .of his ..faculties. The laziness of a good man consists in making . moderate exertion. ; The great artists of the world have " laid j tlieoiselyes.Qut^oii.Bome of their works. I