SOME LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5567, 16 May 1896, Page 3

SOME LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE

Confidence is often preferable, to cleverness. Poverty has generally to pay 40s in the £. i We are all prisoners and are all sentenced to death. Pit cleverness against character; chap acter wins. Life ie like a little picture surrounded by an intolerable deal of margin. Talk if you wish to make enemies; it you wish to make friends, listen. Knowledge is always dissatisfied; con« tentment is the privilege of ignorance. Men generally love gold for the evil that they can do with it; seldom for the good. Much heart and little brains is almost as pernicious as much brains and little heart. Thinkers are the pioneers; they go before to prepare the way for those that are to come after. Never mind tie world, it floats with the stream; it is the duty of man to swim against the stream. • •■■■ ■■ Each one of us is hemmed in by the horizon of hisown times ; imaginatioaalons can penetrate beyond it. ■ In youth it is passion more than vanity which makes a man wish to win woman ; in middle-age it is vanity more than passion. Good manners frequently conceal the absence of good nature^ and ill manners frequently conceal the presence of good nature. This is the key-note of philosophy : to realise the unimportance of being important, and the importance of being unimportant. If you desire* to be popular, pretend to see others as they would wish you to see them. See them as they are-and they will detest you. There is much good in the -world, and there is much that is evil.; but w& frequently find evil where we expect to find good, and good where we expect to find evil. It is not what others think of you which signifies, but that which you think of yourself. It matters little whether the world regards you through rose-coloured glass, but much whether you look through rose-coloured glass at the -world. In life there are two courses of action, and they are diametrically opposed to each other. You must either live for this world or for the next. To live for the two is ridiculous, for the longer you attempt to do this the mor.6 vqji separate yourself £rww.botli, ■■" «" -'-