THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Memories. If. its we are told, a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is in remembering happier things, and if, as the pessimists arc so fond of asserting, things are always getting worse, it .should follow as a natural corollary, one would think, that to exercise the memory at till is to invite the bitterest agony of mind. Moreover, as we have not- yet managed to control our memory, and must lie always using it. we should lie. by the same process of reasoning, condemned to wear for ever that thorny crown (if which the poet speaks. As a matter of fact, we know that nothing of the son, does occur; that there are mortals—and not a few—who do occasionally know joy; and that memories, sci far from being the ravening hounds of brief, can he. and often sire, the happiest of life’s comforters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1924, Page 2
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146THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1924, Page 2
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