Thoughts From the French of Abbe Roux.
Pride and pleasure give birth to folly. Science is for those svho learn ; poetry for those who know.
In the matter of praise we consult our ftpJetties rather than our health. Don't let us keep our heads in our hearts, nor our hearts in our heads.
The good hate evil, not evil men ; the evil ibhor both good and good men.
There are sterile souls in which notbiog ivill grow—neither virtue nor vice.
The end of eloquence is to interest our passions and to impassion our interests.
The inlluenco of poetry is always' strong bn souls which are not surfeited.
Our experience is built up of shattered illusions, rather than of experience acquired.
Imitation is a necessity of Nature— in our youth we imitate others ; in our age, ourselves.
Tho desert draws tho nomad to itself * the ocean, the sailor ; and the infinite, the poet. Remembrance is an impression which r« echoes from distance to distance in the course of our lives.
Collins in Kuisia aro never covered wilb biack For a child, pink is used ; (or * single woman, crimioo ; and lot ft wW#W, brown.
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Southland Times, Issue 19185, 24 October 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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192Thoughts From the French of Abbe Roux. Southland Times, Issue 19185, 24 October 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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