WORDS OF WISDOM.
* Hope nothing from "luck," and the probabilities are that you will be So forewarned and forearmed that all shallow observers will call you lucky. Wealth legitimately acquired is valuable, and is only valuable when thus acquired. A great deal of talent is lost in the world for the want of a little courage. The fact is that, to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Honest industry is always rewarded. No young man need complain of being kept poor if he rolls up his sleeves and goes cheerfully to work. Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than day. The world is the great tempter ; but at the same time it is the great monitor. It stimulates our pride by its pomp and show, its fleeting honours and prizes ; it goads men to the race and inspires them with covetousness and rapacity ; but, on the other hand, it is the great memento and evidence of its own vanity and of the emptiness of everything it offers to us. It is the great saddener, the great Warner, the great prophet.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 49, 10 July 1906, Page 8
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