GEMS OF THOUGHT
PURPOSE. What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but the will to labour. —Lytton. It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are We busy about?—Thoreau. Ihe question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has—Hamilton Wright Mabie. When you are so devoted to doing what is right that you press straight on to that and disregard what men are saying about you,. there is the triumph of moral courage.—Phillips Brooks. Unselfish ambition, noble life-mo-tives, and purity—these constituents of thought, mingling, constitute individually and collectively true happiness. strength, and permanence.— Mary Baker Eddy. The secret of success is constancy to purpose— Disraeli.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1941, Page 2
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