IN PASSING.
Change lays not her hand upon Truth.— Swinburne.
Opinion in good men is but knowledge in tho making. —Milton. Begin your web, and God will supply the thread.—ltalian Proverb.
There is precious instruction to bo got by finding where wo were wrong.— Carlyle. Men of great parts are often unfortunate in tho management of public business, because they are apt to go out of tlio common road by the quickness of their imagination.—Swift.
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. Wo are all inclined to depreciato whatever wo have overpraised, and, on the othor hand, to show undue indulgence where wo have shown undue rigour.—Macnulay. Why will any man bo so impertinently officious, as to tell mo all prospect of a future stato is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news'? If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both tlio happier and better man.—Addison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)
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