OTHER MEN'S MINDS
A faithful friend is the medicine of life. —Ecclesda&ticus. Happiness is added life and the giver of life.—Herbert Spencer.
Even in a sombre mood one can dissipate gloom by thinking of his mercies.
No man is matriculated to- the art of life till he has. been well tempted.— George Eliot.
A thankful person is never habitually grumpy. Only ungrateful people are incorrigibly sullen. Of all earthly music, that which reaches farthest into Heaven is the vibration of loving hearts. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.— Robert Louis: Stevenson.
Nothing is more significant of men's character than what they find laughable. —George Eliot.
Neither in one way of life 'nor in the other is any man entitled to take all the tweet and leave all the sourSir William Temple. • What's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head? —Philip Wharton.
It is the nature.of the mind of man, to the extreme prejudice of knowledge, to delight? in generalitiesBacon. We are men. The capacity to pray is not always in our power, but in the eye of God the desire to pray -.-» prayer.—Lessing. Those for whom pleasure, in the sense of the gratifying of every wish, is a common experience, do not recognise it as pleasure. Frugality, diligence, punctuality, veracity—these are tlie grand fountains from which money and all real values and valors spring for men.Ruskin.
A wife must ■.• learn how to -form her husband's liappi'ness by seeking to know in what direction the secret of his comfort lies; she must not cherish his weaknesses by working upon them, she must not rashly run counter to.his prejudices. Her motto must be, never to irritate.- A Matron's Advice. There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but tlie.se Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, • That polar privacy, . A soul admitted to itself : Finite infinity.
f : , v —Emily Dickinson. Where the footfall sounds of England, where the smile of England shine**, Rings the tread and laughs the face of
freedom, fair a» hope divines Daya to be, more brave than ours and
lit by lordlier stars for signs, All our past acclaims our future; Shakespeare's; voice and' Nelson's hand, Milton's faith and Wordsworth',s\trunt in this our 'chosen and chainless land, , .. • Bear us'.witness': come the world against her England yet shell stand. —Swinburne,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 March 1917, Page 2
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