BUSINESS LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13844, 2 September 1908, Page 9

BUSINESS LIFE.

, SERMONS. iNsi'iß-yiON is half of education. Manliness is the best kind of godliness. Ready-made opinions ' are always misfits. Smartness is never a match for sincerity, It's not the misery but the motive makes the martyr. Th-erc can be no right manners without right motives. s. , Wo are seldom sorry for the stinging words v© have left unsaid. You can never wholly satisfy heart hunger through the ears alone. , .■ ] A man misses the blessing in a difficulty .when he crawls around it. The people who are not afraid to die are tho ones the world wants to live. Advertising the sins of our friends is not the same thing as confessing our own. ./ Light-hearted people are almost- sure to be found carrying somebody else's burden. Everyday exasperations aie . windows through which we >tie the real man within. To .shut your heart to the ■ needs and griefs of others is to shut but the world tide of joy. ' •; FIGHT BACK.IF LUCK IS BAD. Be a Britisher to the backbone, and "fight • back if your luck is bad. Don't sit down to it; don't take defeat lying down. Disaster should never discourage. . • Good pluck will beat had luck any day of tho weak. And bad luck. is bound to. come your way some time. A good job, too, because with it comes the opportunity to bring out the best that,is in you. The man that wins is the one who has the eye. to see hi« opportunity, the heart to prompt him to timely action, the energy to consummate a perfect work, and tne pluck and persistency /necessary to see him through,. the long' lane of trouble. Fight back. Hit hard. Keep smiling. Don't show the white feather. Pull your- ' 1 self together., look adversity full in the face, learn all the useful lessons it teaches, and voir will be top dog right enough. A better bit of advice no one can give you. You can't help winning out if you follow it. ODDS AND ENDS OF TIME, Time is money. You often hear that said.. It is perfectly true. Act on it. V.art with time as with money. Take it by the forelock, because when a second lias once passed there is no recalling it. Occupation is the scythe of time, and time is the estate out of which workers form a rich treasury of thoughts and deeds. :: . Time is more than money. An economical use of-the hours secures leisure in which to improve the mind or indulge some hobby. Some do with time as they do with money take no thought of its value until they come to the end of it. They realise its worth when too-late. The hours you now waste in indolent fashion would, if devoted to self-improvement, make a great difference in you within a year. The odds and ends of time may be beneficially utilised. Look at the uses great men have made of their spare moments. Dr. Darwin composed nearly all his works while driving the round of his patients; a celebrated musician learnt two languages while visiting pupils ; Hale wrote his "Contemplation " when travelling on circuit; and a Manchester errand-boy is said to have acquired Latin and French while going mesI sages. "• ...... | Lord Chesterfield said of the old Duke of Newcastle: "His Grace loses an hour in the morhing, and is looking tor it all the rest : ol the. day." > - . t