Worth Remembering.
Time is oried out upon as a great thief ; it is people’s own fault.—Miss Wetherell. Rocks impregnable are not too stout, Nor gates or steel to strong, but Time decays. —Shakespeare. The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skilful direct it. Time past, how transient; time present, how evanescent; time to come, with many how uncertain ! -Dicks. The best characters have a mixture cf infirmities, ani the worst have sometimes redeeming virtues. Think that day lost, whose descending sun, Views from thy hand no noble action done. It is the merit of those that praise that makes the value of the commendat'on.— Mme. de Lespinasso. A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect; when we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 914, 6 September 1889, Page 6
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140Worth Remembering. New Zealand Mail, Issue 914, 6 September 1889, Page 6
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