GRAINS OF WISDOM

Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 8

GRAINS OF WISDOM

A ward iof bumlihhb is iwkVjiji spoken-in vain. lb is a seed wineh, awn wnan. dropped by coanoa, springs up a flower. Whan real Bobkmas awmunwiiw ttnt FimijiniMcy Ottb of norWL rod €BMgir>iay sbcbbb to mix wx&reaL and becomes real too. Be who is fatoe to present duty breaks * thread in the loom, and wffl see the effect when the weaving of a Sfetame is no* ravelled. " ._ The gimlaui, benefit winch, ooe friend cam confer upon another fs to guard, and esv cite, and elevate his virtuosi—-Dr Johnson, We waste our beet years m a °*» n '"r the iiwiwtol flowers of fife into potkms wnioh,, after all, do not ihhihhAmlibb, bat only intoxicate.—Longfellow. The history of a soldier's wosnd begtoles tite pain of it. We lose the right of comphoning sometimes by forbeanng cb, bvbwe often treble the Jorcet—Sterne. The oncy way to shine, even in tint fatae wozid, is to be modest and unwuniiiug. Falsehood may be a thick crust, but m the course of time truth wJtt find a place to break through. ' Teach seit-denial, and make its practKepieasurable, and you create far the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.—Sir Waiter Scott.

Forgive not the man who gives you. bad wine more than once. It is more than an injury. Cut the acquaintance as you vstae your fife. If you find no more books in a man's room, save some four or five, mchxßng the red book and the general ahnawMKt, you may set down the individual as a man of genias or an ass—there is no medium. The eye is never to be mistaken. A pepson may discipline the muscles of the face and voice, but there is a something in the eye beyond the will, and we thus frequently find it giving the tongue the lie direct. Cut the acquaintance of any lady who signs a letter with "yours obediently." Always act in the presence of ehßdren with we utmost ciroamspectaon. They mark all you do, and most of them are mote wise than you may imagine. ' Men of genius make the most dnctxfe husbands. A fool has too much opinion of his own dear self, and too little of women's, to be easily governed. A passion for sweetmeats and a weak iateDect generally go together. The affection of women is the most wonderful thing in the world. It tires not, faints not, dreads not, cools not. It is Eke the naphtha that nothing can extinguish hut the trarnpOng foot of death There is a language in flowers which is very eloquent—a phnoeophy that is instruotive. Nature appears to have made them as emfrAmyi of women. The timid snowdrop, the modest violet, the languid primrose, the coy hly, the flaunting tulip, the smart marigold, the lowry blushing daisy, the proud foxglove, the deadly nightshade, the sleepy poppy, and the sweet solitary I eglantine are all types.