THOUGHTS FROM CHARLES DICKENS.
Evebt failure teaches a man something, if he will learn. There can be no disparitv in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. What the poor are to the poor is little known excepting to themselves and God. There is no playing fast and loose with the truth in any game, without growing the worse for it. Among men who have any sound and sterling qualities there is nothing so contagious a3 pure openness of heart. A man who has any good reason to believe in himself never flourishes himself before the faces' of other people in order that they may believe in him. Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if the causes be departed from the ends will change. In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind, the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials must ever occupy a foremost place. It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15900, 24 April 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)
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193THOUGHTS FROM CHARLES DICKENS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15900, 24 April 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)
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