WITH MASTER MINDS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 5199, 13 February 1904, Page 11

WITH MASTER MINDS

It is foolish to strive with what wo cannot avoid. All’s well that ends the W yo«* ■want to have it. A weak mind is like a microscope—it magnifies trifling things. Beware "of tlio vice that goes oronnd wearing the mask of virtue. Success only knocks once at the dear, hut adversity will pound all <WMany a man by being though*: better, than himself has become betbo,. Nothing so much prevents oar being natural as the desire of appearing a», An exbraordinry haste to discharge on obligation is a sort of ingratitude. 1 If a main be endued with a gemarteaj>* mind, that is the best kind of nabij&t*To be humble to superiors is duty, to ■ cqualsis courtesy, to inferiors is nobleness. and to all. safety• He that sparcth in everything is an inexcusable niggard; ho that spaxeth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.—Cervantes. Nine times out of ten the woman who is worth her weight in gold marries a man who is not worth his weight in scrap iron. God’s balances weigh ervery individual at the times when ho feels independent , of God, as well as when he feels dependent upon the Divine mercy. Misunderstanding and inattention create more ml easiness in the world than deception and artifice; or, at least, their consequences are more universal. : It must be homo in mind that our intellectual as well as our moral nature is over liable to 'bo powerfully affected by habits' previously formed. — W. E. Gladstone. Tho enemy is more easily repulsed if wo never suffer him to get within oe*i but, upon the very first approach, draw up bur forces and fight him without the gate.—Thomas a Kempis. If thou canst wipe away the team, or cause a smile to brighten the soul of a sorrow-laden brother, or oansfc lead him to the adoration of the good and beautiful. thou shaft _ have more real enjoyment and happiness than all the pleasure!! and joys the world can give yon;