WORDS OF THE WISE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11508, 2 October 1915, Page 7

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Greatness and goodness are not . means, but ends.—-Coleridge. "Words resemble sunbeams—the more >; they are condensed the deeper they : burn. A crowd is not company, and faces | are but a gallery of pictures, and talk *' but a tinkling cymbal, where there is '' J no love.—Bacon. Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy; a friend shares my 'sorrow, and makes it but a ' moiety, but lie swells my joy and makes it double.—Jeremy Taylor. > Work is God's prescription for lonei liness, unhappiness, and the contraries of this sad world. It can be made up : without a chemist, and the ingredients, . if weighed, will never be found wanti ing.—Lady Constance Howard. One expresses well only the love he does not feel.—Alphonsc Karr. A seltish love for others ia a contradiction iu terms—it does not exist; for where true love is there is always self-effacement. Inveterate antipathies against par-i ticular tuitions or persons, and pas- j sionate attachments to others, ate to j be avoided. —Washington. Truth is given not to lie contemplated but to be done.—F. W: Robertson. What is it but custom thai' has for past; centuries confined the brightest | geniuses, even ol high rank in the j female. >vorld. to tl:e only business of ! the needle, and secluded them most j unmercifully from the pleasures of ! knowledge and th<' • . . improvement ; e!' reason ;- Fn! we begin to l.ire.tk all j chains.— l')r Isaac Watto in l~'Jl. j ! .Make not ol' thy heart a casket j j Opening seldom, quick to elo:-e; | Fiut ol' iii'ead a wide-mou thai basket J Or a cup that overflows. . ■ j —George Macdonalil. I Whatev. r is best is safest ; lies out ! ei' the- reach ol hu;s;a!! powi r; can neither he given nor taken away.— ■iolingliroke. Humility is rest. How uiu'ii oi our vexations, our disappointments and sorrows, s; riegs from nor oowoii, and the ,v.d!d demands nnd disproportionate expectations which that conceit engenders: . . • Eel us learn to think little of ourselves, to moderate our claims, walk humbly and bring our expectations down to our deserts.—>'. HHedge. .Beh : ud every mail's business there should If a level of undisturbed senility and industry, as within the reel' encircling a coral isJe there is alv ay-, an expanse of still water, whom the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.— Thorecui.