€rems of Thought.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1733, 25 October 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

€rems of Thought.

Thebs ia nothing which one regards co much wUh as oye of mirth and pity as innocence, when it has in it a dash of folly.— Addison. Love is the greatest of human affections, and friendship the noblest and most refined improvement; of love. — South. False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind •and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.— Montesquieu. The government of maa should be the monarchy of reason ; it ia too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy o? humors.— Dr. Whichcote. Let Fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she nerer makes us lose our honesty and our independency. — Pope. Bux the grace of God is pleased to move us by way 3 suitable to our nature, and to sanctify these sensible helps to higher pur-poses.—-South. A mau must first govern himself ere he be fit to govern a family, and his family ere he be fit to bear the government in the commonwealth.—Sir W. lialeigh. God's foreseeing doth not include or connotate pre-determining, any more than I decree with my intellect. — Hammond. Ton are still living to enjoy the blsssinga of all the good you hav^ performed, and many prayers that; your power of doing generous actions may be extended as you will. God takes men's hearty dasires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not the power to /ulfi! ifc; but be cever took the bare deed instead of the will.— Baxter. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never makiag a mistake as by