TO KEEP THE IDEAL
- Have you a lovo that you would lieep? Pour it oat into a larger love. Have you. a friendsli.ip.that you would hold? Share it with the -world. Have you an ideal you "would not lose? ■ Lay it on the Altar'to Man, Nothing its an end in itself, Everything is only a means to souie , thing else, A.s fear is the only'danger, " Satiety is the only sin. Only wlia'J is given qan be kept. What is hoarded turns to ashes. Nothing is stationary. Treasur© grows or lessens. This is true of a love, a, friendship, .or an ideal. To keep it, share it. Love is not an end in itstflC. Everything is for use, Nothing is 'for keeps." Things, qualities, thoughts/ feeling*—* The world aiul its'contents. Tangible and imponderable—i .Are for the growth of wan, You have heard this before And gushed over it, no doubt. Now stop the gush and get it !nt<y your system; Live it; iSave" your love, ; ... Hold your friendship, Keep your ideal By use. ■■■• • _' -— Lttke Notts.
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Bibliographic details
Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 6
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174
TO KEEP THE IDEAL
Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 6