A THOUGHT FOR NEW YEAR
RUSKIN’S WORDS IN “A JOY FOR EVER.” Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious. Well, who made him more persevering or more sagacious than others? That power of endurance, that quickness of apprehension, that calmness of judgment, which enable him to seize the opportunities that others lose, and persist in the lines of conduct in which others fail—are these not talents? Are they pot. in the present state of the world, among the most distinguished and influential of mental gifts? And is it not wonderful that while we should be utterly ashamed tp use a superiority of body in order to thrust our Weaker companions aside from some place of advantage, we unhesitatingly use our superiorities of mind to thrust them back from whatever good that strength of mind can attain. . . . I trust that in a little 1 while there will bp few of our rich men who, through carelessness or covetousness, thus forfeit the glprious office which was intended for their hands. , . . Wealth ill-used is as the net of the spider, entangling and destroying; but wealth well used is as the net of the sacred fisher who gathers the souls of men out of the deep,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 17, 31 December 1932, Page 7
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212A THOUGHT FOR NEW YEAR Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 17, 31 December 1932, Page 7
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