The things that Hurt.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 23 June 1904, Page 5

The things that Hurt.

Ask any man who has had a long experience of life what are the things that have hurt him most, that have pierceihia! heart, and cut him to the quick, and made wounds that will not heal, and he will tell you they are the iarworßißs bonis by lovh. Malice and hatred have really very little power to hurt us, because they only touch us on Jibe outside. They are simply blows delivered on the armour, and we bear them as we may with the conviction that in the rough battle of life they are to be expected, and .cannot be avoided. Few men, who have mixed much with men, can avoid having foes; but the wise man is not troubled over it, knowing that it is scarcely possible in this world to lire at peace with all men. These things are disagreeable and unpleasant, but they do not break a man's heart, they do not even break his rest. But the injuries of love—the cold and thoughtless words on lips you have kissed, the ingratitude of the ohild for whom you have toiled, the stolid indifference to the wilful misapprehension of your aims and motives by those in whom you have trusted, the lack of sympathy, the lack of understanding in those from whom you have the best right to expect both—these are the heart-breaking things in life.