Familiar Sayings.

Otago Witness, Issue 1583, 25 March 1882, Page 27

Familiar Sayings.

Quotations from the best Authors.

[Our reader* are invited io contribute quotation* of not more than eight or nine Una.)

Selected by T. Pitts, Leith street, Dunedin :— Virtue is like, precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for prosperity doth best discover vico, but adversity doth best destroy virtue— Bacon. Virtue, a fig 1 'Tis in ourselves that we aro thus and thus. —Shakespeare.

Heaven me such a usage send, Not to take bad from bad, but by bad mend. # , —Una. Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming becoming better than you are. —Guesses at Truth. To suppress the truth may now and then be our duty to others. Not to utter a falsehood must always bo our duty to ourselves.— Guesses at Truth. The greatest truths are the simplest j and so are tho greatest men.— Guesses at Truth. Half the failures of life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. — Guesses at Truth. • . ■ ' We may envy the man who enjoys and rests ; but the smile of heaven settles rather on the front of him who labours and aspires.— Lord, Lytton. He who never knows pain knowß but the half of pleasure.— Lord Lytton. Friendship, when once determined, never swerves ; • Woighs ere it trusts, but weighs not ere it serves. . 8 —Hannah Moore. , Yo stars ! which are the poetry of heaven, ' ) .Ilin your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires— 'tis to be forgiven, \ That in our, aspirations to be great, ; Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, „ , . And claim' r kindred'with you ; for ye are „ " - A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reference from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star." ' ' , - • — Byron. . Selected by H. Brazier,- Alexandra South :— ' One has a headache, ono a cold, One has her neck in flannel rolled ; Ask the complaint, and you are told, '„,. Next week's examination. One frets and Scolds, and laughs and cries, Another hopes, despairs, and sighs, • ' i ■ '" ' . Next week'a examination. ? One leaves her books, then grasps them tight, , And Bfcudies morning, noon, and night, As though she took some Btranga delight In these examinations. The books are marked, defaced, and thumbed, . The brains wjth midnight tasks benumbed ; i Still all in that account is summed, , : - ' Next week's examination. — Anon.-, The line of life is crossed by many marks ; ' . Your hand is cold, like a deceiver's hand. —Longfellow. , •Seleoted ■by Thomas M. Baxter, Dunedin :— "'"-'"The most venomous animals are reptiles; themost spiteful among human beings rise no higher.—Hare.- — -Some injure all they fear, and fear all they injure. ■ , ' ... ■ ! , Things printed can never be stopped— they are like babies baptised;, they have a soul ', from "that moment, and go on for ever.— • George' Meredith'. ' Time passes away, but sayings remain. ! A friend is a person who will not assist you, - because he knows your love will excuse him.— Comic Times. ■ ■"" Friends are known in tune of need.

', E^ery.manhas in himself a oontinent of un- • discovered character. ..Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. — Sir James .. . „ While observing others, strive to form and ' • improve your own character, by adopting that •'which is good; rooting out that which is bad, and correcting your weak points. . ' .' There is no word or action but may be taken , with two hands, either with the right hand of , charitable construction, or tho sinister inter- , ■pretation of malice and suspicion; and all . ' things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil is but a pleasing and profitable . deceit to myself ; but to misconstrue a good . thing is a terrible wrong to myself, tho action, ,'and the author.— Bishop Hall.

- Selected by A. E., Mount Cargill :— Enjoyi the pleasant company of your best friends, but in all enjoyment be temporato. The wind blows out, tho bubble dies, Tho spring entombed in autumn lies ; ! Tho flew dries up, the star is shot, The (light is past, and man forgot.

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