For the Wise—and Otherwise.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 21 September 1918, Page 2

For the Wise—and Otherwise.

—.— - "Dog" bark, but the caravan passes," say the Arabs. * * « # # The boughs that bear most hang lowest. • * * Better to go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery. **• * * If two men ride a horse, one mu6t ride behind.—Shakespeare. *.<«. . ■ # * •Sail while the wind blows; ' Wind aud tide won't wait, vou know. * ■ * . * • m- * . He has no patience who 'has no faith. «... • * . He Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. , : • * •* * - » Patience is a ihorse that never stumbles. - , * « w • * « ' Borrowing as the scissors of frendphip. • ■ ■ Difficulties are,, the things that (Show ■ what men are. , * - * w , * ... » '■ The truth ie always the strongest argument. , * * * • » Success may alienate' a man from his fellows, but suffering makep kinsmen of . us .all. . *-*■• - • « . « Good men should seem to offer thencharacter as security rather than, their oath. .*. * i».> i ■ Maii cannot thrive apart from the land. ' . * * * *" s * '. i . The most dreadful and blood-chilling • thing in the world is 'a tired kindness.. , Anger is the sweat of thought— -verily, verily, a death-sweat. . ■ As-long as a woman can pass-for her daughter sWe is fair'ly satisfied. A man's good work is effected by, doing what he doe/?, a woman's 'by be* ins what slio is. In a. world where death is, tl)ere is "no time for hate. ' **: , * « I' An executiveA man, who can make cruicsk decisions and is sometimes right. Gen'ius 'is! fin®, but if it . comes to a show-down gumption is better. . Wheal what you have done in the past looks large to you,, you haven't done much to-day. ■j* * * * | TUier© in a big differencc between joy- • . ous work and joyless . toil—-it is love that lightens labour. | .:■■* * ! One machine can do the work'of .fifty _ ordinary men. No machine can do the. 1 •' work of one extraordinary man.^ ! Sympathy and sentiment in right ' proportion are all right and are needled, but both must be used, an a warp and ' w*>of of the practical. *£w * » ■ 1 Be verv careful how you go into tlie Best Society. A man ventured in, oncei, and sank over his ears. Ho wnis got out. hut lie was never any- good' afterward*. • . * . * .. * ■ ■ * # ' The apparel of - the woman oft pro- ' claims the mail. ; j People will believe in you, if you set 1 them the example. ... • ■ "| . * ' ? , * * ■■■";. 7 j People "admire classical' music—the _ ■ other sort they enjoy., "c * ; • • - ... *• , , ... Genius lTlay have its limitation*:, ibut stupidity is not thus handicapped.. I . 1 * ■'* r , . ...,, , 1 "When, you get angry it is righteous indignation; when the other fellow gets 1 ■ angry it .iis 'an exhibition of beastly ' temper. ' ■ ■■ „ i The world is run "by secondi-rate peo- , pie; the best are speedily crucified,■or else never heard of until'long after they are dead.