THOUGHTS ON BOOKS.
“Reading does not withdraw us from life; reading enriches life. Books are counsellors hnd no one is so wise as to be beyond the need of counsel. Books corVect us in the gentlest and subtlest way; not openly like other mentors, but by a considerate delicacy they show us the folly of our conceits, and make us wishful of better things.' 'They also enlarge our sympathies, and lam persuaded that many people would live a kinder and more .serviceable life if they followed a course of good reading. And yet it is' a good thing to be without books for a time; it is a particularv good thing for anyone who is inclined to be bookish. There is always a danger that the brain may run away with the heart’s best blood, and to have one's shelves empty for a few weeks does certainly help us to get our blood llow in the ! right direction. Our empty book shelves are a chastisement, not joyous but grievous; but iuov yield the peaeable fruits of righteousness .to those who nre exercised thereby.”—Rev. Arthur E. J. Cotton, in “The Common Bush.'’
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3
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191THOUGHTS ON BOOKS. Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1927, Page 3
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