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Wisdom lies only in truth.Goethe. ' Lives are made beautiful and sweet. ; j Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be ; wise.—Gray. ■By self-devotion, and by self-restraint.— ■»'■] Longfellow. > To be melancholy is to be for ever thinking of oneself.Diane. : -..,-.' 1: Nothing that is necessary shocks really* sensiblo people.Crawford. There is no ~ penalty to virtue; ; there is no penalty to wisdom. Emerson. • jEe that despairs . . . limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.—Southey. The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of sweetness and light.—Matthew Arnold. Mien's muscles V move better when their souls are j making ?•merry; music.—George Eliot. , Sleep is a generous l robber gives in strength what it tikes in time. Carmen Sylva. »■ " Time, > whose tooth gnaws away everything; else, <■ is powerless against truth. — .Huxley. ~ > . - "Let your light so shine before men that they see '—not what is going on behind it. H. B. Sheridan. • Many ■ authors found it easier to write. for money when' they ; were at school than they do now.—Anon. Nothing in the world is so cruel as the tender mercies of a real « philanthropist. Sir William Haroourt. A country boy is lovable until he is loafable; then he is loathable until he becomes clubable.— J. Swinburne. • >' / ■ , . "■•■ - . ■- The strong man may drive and threaten, but the man who can lead is he who 'has the subtle power! of personal charm.— Charles Herbert. " The old Quakers were taught to cherish the value of money and the fear of God. Nowadays we value money and fear nobody.—Lady Violet Greville. In the morning when thou riseth unwillingly, let this ' thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the thirgs for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? Or have I ■ been I made for this, to lie in the bedclothes "and keep myself warm?— Marcus Aurelius.,
There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards ' many, .and maketh men become humane and charitable,,as. it is seen sometimes' in: friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfectetlv it, but wanton love ' co'rrupteth and' embaseth ' it.—Francis Bacon.. * ; ' I take unceasing delight in Chaucer. His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious to me in my old age. How exquisitely tender he is and r yet » how perfectly free from" the least touch of sickly melancholy or morbid ,; drooping ! The sympathy of the poet with the subjects of. his ""poetry is particularly remarkable in Shakespere and Chaucer; but what the first effects by a strong, active imagination and > mental metamorphosis, the last does without any, effort, merely by the inborn kindly joyousness of his nature. How well we seem to know Chaucer How absolutely nothing do we know of Shakespere!—Coleridge. ■ The 'merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The"believing man, is the original man; whatsoever ■■■ he believes, he believes it for himself,' not for another. Every . son: of Adam [ can become a sincere man, an original man, in this sense no mortal is doomed to be ;an insincere man. Whole ages, what we call ages of faith, are original; all men in them, or the most men in them, sincere. These are the great and fruitful ages. Every worker in - all spheres isa worker not on semblance, but on substance every work issues' in a resuit -.:'; the . general ■ sum ; of such work *is great for*all of it, as genuine, tends towards one goal; all of it is additive, none of it " subtractive. ';, There ?is true union, true I kingship, loyalty, all time and blessed things, 'so far as the poor earth can [ produce blessedness men.Carlyle. :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 10
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