WITH MASTER MINDS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 12

WITH MASTER MINDS

A shut mouth keeps me out of strife. Every appeal to your impatience is an opportunity to learn patience. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for couitesy. He who has no vision of eternity will never get a true hold of time. —Carlyle. Those who -would thoroughly know themselves have a life-work before them. The rule of self-obedience to the right will bring all things in order.—W. 111. Gladstone. Do not get discouraged. It is often the last key on the bunch that opens the lock.- —“Puck.” If a man bo endued with a generous mind, "that is tho best kind of nobility. —-Adam Smith. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they consider laughable.—Goethe. Futile as is tho search for perpetual motion, the search for perpetual rest is still more so. —Ivan Parin. Every smile of every child of the large family that taxes the strength of the bread-winner helps him to win the bread. Remember at all times that the great secret of keeping cool is to cultivate contentment and an evenly balanced mind. He doeth much that loveth much. He doeth much that doeth a tiling well. He doeth well that serveth the common good rather than his own will. We need each other’s forbearance as well as encouragement in order to do our best. We do not all see alike; we cannot all work in the same way. The fool maintains an error with tho assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken.