A DAILY MESSAGE
KNOW THYSELF!
lm: wisest thoiicrhf of the seven wi-e men <i| (irecce was expressed in t!m two worths " Know thyself.” Ihe wisest thought of all I lie wise men who have lived since tlmir day is still expressed in the same two words. Ask the wisest anionjisi us to-day for a two-word snyyesiiou for practical success, and lie will replv “ Know thyself.” ‘‘Know thyself' ” are the wisest words ever sjioken by mortal man, aiieicnt or modern. W't, lew men in ancient times did and lew men in modern times do—know t liemselvos. That is why there were so few wise men, then, and why there are so few wise ones now. .Many of us know many other persons well, hut lew of us know well the one person whom it is our chief business in life to know. It you do not know (he possihilii ies of the fellow within you M you do not know of the power which may he .sliimherino within him 11 you do not know how lie will behave under the hammer of adversity how lie is likely to react in an emergency— II you do not know just where he cannot, he trusted —where he lias to lie buttressed and supported - How do you know what to set him to. how to unfold ills powers, how io utrenyth him. how to brace him up. how to sustain him under lire, how to transmute his yellow streaks, lmw io sublimate his desires, how to make a success of him, and, more important st ill. how io make a man of him ?
To know thyself is to help lliysel!
—M. IMIESTOX STANLEY
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1928, Page 1
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279A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 4 December 1928, Page 1
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