RICHES. The sense to value riches, with the art To enjoy them, and the virtue to impart. Not meanly nor ambitiously pursued. Not sunk by sloth, nor rais’d by servitude ; To balance fortune by a just expense, Join with economy magnificence; With splendour, charity; with plenty, health; Oh teach us!—Pope. —R. W. Emerson. THE LOAD OF POVERTY. To mortal men great loads allotted be; J But of all packs,, no pack like poverty —Herrick. A CANKER OF LIFE, j Peevishness may be considered the I canker of life that destroys its vigour land cheeks its improVerfient; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot conI sume.-Dr Johnson.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 164, 13 July 1931, Page 2
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