APHORISMS
If youth be a defect, it is one we outgrow only too soon.—Lowell. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. —Johnson.
It is not work that kills men ; it is worry. Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.—Henry Ward Beccher.
Manners carry the world for a moment, character for all times.—A. Bronson Alcott.
The heart of true whomanliood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it.—Hawthorne.
Kind works are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but off benevolence and courtesy ; blessings both to the spdaker and hearer of .them, —Frederick Saundera.
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important. —Auerbach. It is a beautiful thought that, however far one shore may be from another, the wave which now riffles over my foot will in a short time be on the opposite strand.—Wilhelm Yon Humboldt.
There never was a good war nor » bad peace. —Franklin.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6414, 26 March 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)
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187APHORISMS Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6414, 26 March 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)
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