WITH MASTER MINDS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4824, 29 November 1902, Page 7 (Supplement)

WITH MASTER MINDS

It is the wise only who profit by adversity.

A crooked man may leach some very straight lessons. None preaches better than the ant. and she* says nothing'.

Self-respect is tlie noblest garment wo can clothe ourselves in.

“Thin!: with the wise," Aristotle said, but speak with the common people.

No man ever designed injury to another without doing greater to himself.

Some people have a good time wherever they go because they take it along witn them.

A bad marriage is like an electric machine. It makes you dance, but you -an’t let it go.

Tho church and the school are the two institutions that make this world habitable,and safe.

If Nature is 20 years building cur bodies, let ns grudge no needful time to build our minds.—Philip Brooks.

A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent: a kind eye makes contradiction an ussen*; an enraged eye makes beauty deformed.— Addison.

Tho intimacy begotten over the wine bottle has no heart. No one ever knew a good feeling to como from it, or any honest friendship made by it. It only entices men and ruins them.

We never forget the kind words wo have spoken or the retort we havo left unsaid, but bitterly we recall sharp words spoken angrily, and unkind action-: that may havo caused tears to como to eyes that may never shed them any more.

Man is a tamer of wild beasts, and these wild beasts are his passions. To draw their tooth and claws, to muzzle and tome them, to turn them into servants and domestic animals, fuming, perhaps, hut submissive—in this consists personal education.—Amiol.

Love is like a tree—vegetating of itself, striking deep roots clirougn ail our being, and ollen continuing to grow greenly over a heart in rums. And, inexplicable as it is, tho blinder is this passion the more it is tenacious. It is never more firmly seated chau when it is without a shadow of reason.—Victor Hugo. Nothing can bring peace but yourself. Nothing can bring- you peace but the triumph of principles.—Emerson. Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. —Charles ivmgsley. Of all the follies infidelity is the greatest. Political redemption rests on personal righteousness. Tho best prayer for a father's blessing is a sou's obedience. Many a one by being thought better than he was has become Better. * * » » • Good sense and good breeding are fruits that usually grow on the same busji. Originality often consists of tho ability to work old things off on a new audience. Caro not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving. The man who consecrates his hours By vigorous effort, and an honest aim. At onco he draws tho sting of life ana death.—-Young. One reason why the world is not reformed is because every man would havo others make a beginning,, and never thinks of doing so himself.—o. W. Holmes. * # * At almost every step in life we meet with young men for whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, even after much and careful inquiry, we never happen to hoar anotheiMvord. A sacred burden is the life ye bear, Look on it, lift it. bear it solemnly. Stand up, and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin. But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.—Kemble. • * * * • It is to you, ye workers, who do already work, and are as grown men, noble and honourable in a sort, that the whole world calls for new work and nobleness. Subdue mutiny, discord, widespread, despair, by manfulness, justice, mercy, and wisdom.—Carlyle. 99• ' • 9 Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, and weak—above all, any little child—to shame and confusion of face. Never, by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste —never, above all, by indulging in tho devilish pleasure of a # sneer, crush what is finest and rouse *up what 15 coarsest in the heart of any fellowcreature. Remember for what purpose you were born, and throughout the whole of life look to its end, and consider when that cornea in what will you put your trust. Not in the bubble of worldly vanity, it will be broken; not in worldly pleasures, they will bo gone; not in great connections, they cannot serve you; not in wealth, you cannot take any with you; not in rank, in tho.grave there is no distinction; not in the recollection of a life spent in* a giddy conformity to the silly fashions of a thoughtless and wicked world, but iu that of a life spent soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.—Bishop Watson. * • • * • It is wonderful to so© how many hours prompt people contrive to make of a day. It is as if they picked up the moments the dawdlers lost, and if ever you find yourself where you have so many things pressing upon you-that you hardly know how to begin, let mo tell you a secret;—Take hold of the very one that comes to your hand, and you will find the rest will all fall into file, and follow after like a company of well-drilled soldiers; and though work may. be hard to meot when it charges in a squad, it is easily vanquished if you can bring it into line. You may have often seen tho anecdote of tho man who was asked how he had accomplished so much In his life: —“My father taught me," was the reply, “when I had anything to do, to go and do it—now!" There is the secret—the magic word —now!