WIT AND WISDOM

NZ Truth, Issue 996, 27 December 1924, Page 5

WIT AND WISDOM

Next to the Originator of a, Good Sentence is Vie Quoter of it'-f'Emeraon

If a man will take from a* woman something /so preoious as. her love,, surely he may share with- her; anything so paltry as her money I : There are some people who 'are walking this, earth' who are wearing a halo. It's invisible to i you | and hie, but it's there, .nevertheless, and the. glow of it lights the dark walls of . their • lives, and sustains them through ! all pain and oppression. They are' the people who have made sacrifices— they are the people^ who have RENOUNCED. What a wonderful -mother, is •' '^Nature 1. She is the first of all "healers. Most maladies can be ■ cured- by. going back to her four ' strong children— Sun, Water, Air, and Land. ;•" On the westward slope of fifty there .is no want so bitihg : . , as, the want of • children and grandchildren, loving you with blood-love and continually re-, viving^dur interest m the pay ■/'of life. .;;'.■ :■=■:■■; . ' _. : ■ ■..'■ There are no failures m Nature I The d«iad body enriches the earth; the scattered flower petals leave the seed; the fallen forests of age become coal ; the

waste of the stable is the food of the field. Out of every incident of /decay Nature fashions a new life force. /To know that you are stupid .and hide it, that is, cleverness. Expect to fail; don't be afraid of it. Every man fails, and the "great* masters of the world have made the greatest 'failures. Only . thiey reformed their live*, and charged again. Th e magnificent chorus of; -final triumph . is .;. sweetened by: the minor chords of suffering.- •/ v r' v t Don't ever bo afraid to laugh. .Laugh and be human*. It. doesn't .make much difference what you laugh at. Children - laugh at nothing, and are happier than we. ' . ■'■" ,-; . . "■.:■■. ,;■':. •.,.-'./. , ■ ; . ' . ■ Of all the professions m the -world undoubtedly greatest; is teaching, whether reckoned by the results upon others or the results upon yourself . To clear up the ideas of '. others,, to. awaken high enthusiasm «n them, to equip, their minds against false reasoning, and. to render them strong <. and vigorous ii the very best business known. ' '