IN PASSING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6852, 6 March 1929, Page 11

IN PASSING

.. A despot has always same good moments.—Voltaire, . . -;a. ■

All the sin of men I esteem as their disease, not their nature.—ltuskiu. Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no man has mastered all its keyß. —Hugh Miller. We do not know how cheap the seeds of kindness are, or we should scatter them oftener. —Lowell. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.—Goethe. If a man could always make full use of his misfortunes, what a big success he’d be.—Oswald Kendall.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.—Emerson. Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural- causes.—F. ,W. Faber.

The human mind is a wonderful machine; but it becomes a useless chaos when reason ceases to guide tho spring of action.—Lucius.

It is the calling, of great men, not so much to preach now truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.—Sydney Smith. Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life- —in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a colour. —Seneca. Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. As there is much beast and some devil in man, so thero is some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.—Samuel Taylor Coleridge..

I believe that ordinary or common wireless is going to be one of tho greatest bonds between the common people of tho -whole world, and it is the common people who, in the long run will decide whether there is going to be a war or not. —Mr. Stanley Baldwin.