ONE THING AND ANOTHER.
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There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.— Prentice. The best recipe for going through life in a commendable way is to feel that everybody, no matter how rich or how poor, needs 'ill the kindness they can get from ethers in the world.
The best-instructed person is Hie one whoian do ucll the greatest windier oi useful things. Tin- true king- is .human whose hands arc trained to execute the plans that the active brain and honest heart originate.
The fountain oi content must spring up in the mind, and be who has so litile knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by elinnging anything but his own ■ disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which lie purposes to remove. Praise in the right place, at the right time, is a wonderful helper. It brightens the daily life and sweetens the daily task. It implies such a pleasant sense of appreciation and recognition that it enlivens the dullest routine. For we are none of us too old to like being praised, or to be helped thereby to fresh endea-
yours.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 382, 2 April 1880, Page 3
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202ONE THING AND ANOTHER. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 382, 2 April 1880, Page 3
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