What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 12

What they Say:

Readers are Invited to contribute to I tl.ls column, sayings ol notable people ; of any age. fiat have Impressed them. "I too am indignant when yootl Homer nods, though in a long work \ it is allowable lor sleep to creep over ■ the writer."—Horace. "The proverb holds, that to be wise and love, ] Is hardly granted to the gods above" —Dryden. . Speak gently! ’Tis a little thing ! Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; j The good, the joy, that it may bring 1 Eternity shall tell." —G. W. Langford. "Ne'er | Was flattery lost on poet's car: ; A simple race! they waste their toil ! For the vain tribute of a smile. —Scott. "But death comes not at call: justice divine ' Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.” —Milton. "The English Bible—a book which if everything else in our language should | perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power." —J. B. Macaulay. —John Fletcher. ‘‘But strength of mind is exercise, not rest, The rising tempest puts in act the soul, Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. —Pope. "Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man. Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.”