Worth Remembering.
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow.—Longfellow. A bird is known by his note and a man by his talk. The earth is a host who murders all Ins guests, - Hafiz. The art of life is to know how to eojoy little and endure much. A good life is the beat way to understand wisdom and religion. Having suffered, I know how to help those who are in distress.—Seneca. He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. Better a little in peace with right than much with anxiety and strife. Every one has his faults, but we do not see the hump on our own back.—Catullus. Liberality' consists lees in giving much than in .'living seasonably.—French Proverb. By aSlence I heir other people's perfections ami correct my own imperfections.—Zeno.
Eat only purefood, drink only pure 1 quids, think only pure} thoughts, and keep your blood pure. There are lying looks as well as lying words, dissembling smiles, deceiving sings and oven a lying silence. A man who does me a wrong injures himself ; what, then, shall I do myself a further wrong by injuring him?—Epictetus. There is a selfishness even in gratitnde when it fa too profuse : to be overth&ukfal
for one favour is in effect to lay out for an-
other. . , . . . Perhaps there is no more important part m all life than to receive the varying events of weal and woe in such a way that they may each develop something worthy in our charaeters.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 956, 27 June 1890, Page 6
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