Familiar Sayings.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 11 March 1882, Page 26

Familiar Sayings.

Quotation* from the beat Authors.

{Our readers are invited to contrfoute quotation of not mart than eight or nine lines.) '

Selected by Thomas M. Baxter, Dunedin :—

The wealth of covetous persons is like the sun after he haa set, delights' none,— Socratta.

Better have a pain in the pocket than one in the heart.

All, the praises of poverty are Bung by the minstrel who has a golden harp to chant them, on. — Puck Praise the sea, but keep on land. The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.- 1 lialfs. Man, know thyself !— all, wisdom centres there.— Xoung. . Learning is acquired by reading books ; but the more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them. All are in general, nnd yet no two in particular, exactly alike. Those who have not accurately studied, perpetually mistake : they do not discern the shades and' gradations that distinguish characters seemingly alike.— Lord Ctiuterfidd. Wise men read very sharply all yeur private history in your look; and gait, and behaviour, — Emerson. '*' " r . I ''_ ' Selected by Christina ft., Walkaka :~ \ , ■< v ivy.-; .'. ' •/•■ ,• ,- Oh t a dainty plant is the Ivy. green, , » ' That creepeth o'er ruins old ; '„ ; , , , , : Of righfi choice food are his meals, I>v&on, , In his cell so lone and cold. ', ' * Creeping vyhere no life is seen,' '/ • , A rare old jlantisthe.ivy green.;' , : —Dickens, Piokwieki ■ • ; - INTELLECT, ' The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the Devil —Goethe, Correspondence. , ,tl "fc , „ 1 '■ .' •. EXAMPLE. -, •'• . / Example Is more forcible than precept.People look at my six days in the week to see wb!at I mean on the seventh.— .Rev. 22,' Cecil.' i' *' ', OHABAOTEES. ' "., , Characters never change. : Opinions alter,--characters are only developed.— Disraeli, ' ' | : ' ,' ' ' QASTMIS. ' - -' •■" ■ '' Castles in the air cost a va»t deal to keep up. — Lyiton, ' < , v j . „,, OANDOUB* . . • > .( , Candour ia the brightest gem of criticism,— Disraeli. • < Selected by Incognito, Blueskin .— ' The man that hath no music in himself, ' ; Nor is not moved with .concord of sweet sounds,' • ' Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; ■ The motions of his spirit are. dull as night, ■ And hid affections dark as Erebus ; ■ . Let' no such man be trusted. ■

—Shakespeare. We do pray for mercy ; and that same prayer Doth teach 'us all to render the deeds of mercy. , ~lbk. Sweet are the uses of adrersity. Ibid. Kindness, nobler even than revenge. • Ibid.

Selected by H» Brazier, Alexandra South :—: —

Love is that native poetry springing ,np indigenous to mind ; the heart's own country 'music, thrilling all its chords } the story with* out an end which angels throng to hear ; We : word, the king of words, carved on Jetiovah'a heart ! Go, call thy sn*ke:eyed malice mercy, call envy honest praise, count selfish craft for wisdom, and coward treaohery fqr prudence, do homage to blaspheming unbelief as to bold and free philosophy, and estimate the reckless* ness of license to the right attribute of liberty. But with the world, thou friend and scholar, stain not this pure name; nor suffer the majesty of love to be likened to the meanness of deßire; for love ia no more such 'than Seraph's hymns are discord } and such Is no more love than Etna's breath is summer.— Martin lupper.

SOIILOQDY.

Wot a goose, wot a grampus you've bin, John Bumpus — firstly, for going to Bea; secondly, for remaining at sea ; thirdly t for nos forsakin' the sea ; fourthly, for' bein worried about it all. So good-bye to the mighty ocean, And adoo to the rollin' sea ; For it's nobody has no notion Wot a grief it has bin to me. — R. M. Ballantym.

Selected by ' Excelsior,' Queenstown :— One rock amid the weltering floods, One torch in a tempestuous night, ' One changeless pine in fading woodsSuch is the thought of love and might.

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