A DAILY MESSAGE
WEIGH THOSE WORDS! Tin: eloquence of silence is at times quite as effective as the eloquence on speech, and very much more difficult. It is easy to say what wo feel. It is difficult at times not to say it. Expression is always easier than repression ; it is the line of least resistance. To be silent under great provocation requires control. To withhold speech which would destroy somebody, and help nobody, requires strength. T 0 leave unsaid much that one would like to say is a power possessed by lew, and then only by those who have achieved great self-mastery. Who was it said, “ Speech is silvern, hut silence is golden”? Whoever hi was, lie knew. —M. PRESTON STANLEY
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1929, Page 1
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122A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1929, Page 1
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