WORDS OF THE WISE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 1125, 19 December 1914, Page 5

WORDS OF THE WISE.

A friend to everybody is generally a friend to nobody.—Spurgeon.

Do not say all that you know, but always know what you say.—Claudius.

If we cannot get what wo like, let ns try to like what we can _ got.— Spanish proverb.

••• Every day is a fresh beginning

Every morn is the world made new

Occasional depression no ono can avoid, but ill-temper, everybody.— Feuchtersleben.

Genuine benevolence is not stationary but peripatetic. It goeth about doing good.—-Nevins.

A calm more awful is than, storm. Beware of calms in any form. This life means action. —Joaquin-Miller

Perhaps nothing will so much hasten the time when body and mind will both lie adequately cared for, as a diffusion of the belief that the preservation of health is a duty.—Herbert Spencer.

Always encounter petulance with gentleness, and perversene.is with kindness; a gentle hand will lead the elephant itself by a hair. —Saadi. * V

The whole universe in which we live is arranged in such a fashion that, if we would be at all in harmony with it, we must have patience.—Rev Stopford A. Brooke. The true nobffity proceeds from God. Not left us by inheritance, but given By bounty of our stars and grace of heaven.- —Drvden. *•* If by prudential economy we realise the dignity of man, life will be a blessing, and old age an honour.—Smiles. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valour to dare to live.—Sir Thomas Brown. • •.* There is no unbelief. Whoever plants a leaf beneath the sod, And waits to see it push awa.y the clod, He trusts in God. —Case. %" As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long there can be no question at all but that splendour of dress is a crime.— Ruskin. V Time cures every wound, and though the scar may remain, and occasionally ache, yet the deadliest agony of its recent* affliction is felt no more.—Scott.

Learn to make Time the father of wise Hope; Then trust thy cause to the arm of Fortitude. * The light of Knowledge, and tlie .warmth of Love.

Reverence for age is a fair test of the vigour of youth; and conversely, insolence towards the old and the past, whether in individuals or in nations, is a sign rather of weakness than of strength.—o. Kingsley.