What they Say:
Readers are Invited te contribute to this column, Bayings of notable people of any age, that have Impressed them: "Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire."—Duchesse de Praslin. "Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords."—Earl of Stirling. The objects that we have known in better days, are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections and give rfs strength to await our future lot!"—William Hazlitt. "Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth."—Paul the Apostle. "Humour is of a genial quality and closely allied to pity."— Henry Giles. "Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so.” — Coleridge. It is not in the power of everyone to taste humour, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God.”—Sterne. "Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side."—Whipple. Contributed by J. a. “Behold the Greenstone Door is open!”—Maori Proverb. “We will fight on for ever, for ever, for ever!”—Maori war cry. "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” —Julius Caesar. “These are the tombs of such as cannot die.” — Crabbe, “On Books.” "They were swifter than eagles, they ivere stronger than lions." David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan. Contributed by "Tui.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20165, 20 July 1935, Page 12
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231What they Say: Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXX, Issue 20165, 20 July 1935, Page 12
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