Worth Remembering.
Custom makes all things easy, and content Is careless.
—Anon. The remedy of to-morrow may be too late; for the evil of to-day. The earnestness of life is the only pasßport to the satisfaction of life.—Theodore; Parker.
For one man who can stand prosperity,, there are a hundred who will stand adversity.—Carlyle.
The dear Lord’s best interpreters Are humble human souls ; The gospel of a life like hers Is more than books or scrolls.
—Whittier. Wit is brushwood, wisdom ia timber. The first makes the brightest flame, but the latter the most lasting heat. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where wo stand as in what direction we are moving. Oliver W. Holmes. No sheep so black in all the flock, No human heart so bare, But hath some warm and generous stock Of kindness to share. ' —Anon.He that comes to seek after know'edge; with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter enough for his hurnorbut none for his instruction. Every man who has decision of character will have enemies and the man who has nodecision and no character can have no good friends .—N. O. Picayne. Then so.v —for the hours are fleeting, And the seed must fall to-day ; And care not what hands shall reap it, Or if you shall have passed away Before the waving corn-fields Shall gladden the sunny day. Anon..
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 823, 9 December 1887, Page 6
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238Worth Remembering. New Zealand Mail, Issue 823, 9 December 1887, Page 6
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