WORDS OF WISDOM

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 303, 2 November 1883, Page 5

WORDS OF WISDOM

) He is the best accountant .who can cast up < correctly the sum of his own errors.— [NeAny one may do^a casual act of good - nature, but a continuation of them shows it is a part of the temperament.— [Sterne. # , -Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defects, and • never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting sense or sincerity.— [Locko. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-caturcd old man,, who is neither • capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to oilier*.- [Sir W. Temple. ' it is doing some service to humanity to amuse innocently ; and they know very little of society who, thinks we can bear to be always employed either in duties or meditations without any relaxation.— [lrving. To rule one's anger is well ; to prevent it is better.'-^- [Edwards. • He who foresees calamities suffers them . twice over.— [Porteous. .. , I Censure' 1 is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.— [Swift. ... -A grateful mind ! "By owing owes not, but still pays ; at ouce '■ Indebted and discharged. ■ „ ,'..,. — [MlltOll. ; . A contents mind is the greatest .blessing amancanieijoy mi this world ; and if in the if present ilifeihis happiness arises from the sab- -. duing.of liisidesires; it Wjill. arise in : the. ' next ; from the satisfaction of thenv-^Addison. ; The country is then philosopher's garden 1 and library, iv- which ;he roads ,au,d coatem- . • places the power, 'wisdom and goodness of .. liod.-[Pe ; n. . ..<• . •• .. ■> : , There is iiothing ;more : universally com- ■ mended than a fine day ; tho reason is that ..people can commend it without envy.— , ; ,[,fchensione. . Disparage and depreciate no one ; an m- •• sect, has feeling and an atom a shadow.— ( '£'fythagoras. • '',• . Experience, joined to coixnnoii sense, To mortals is a providence. —[Green. 'i. We should never make enemies, if for no '- rQther reason, becausu it is so hard to behave towards them- as wo ought. — [Palmer. . * Educatipn,begins the. gentleman, but readying, good' company and education must finish l r : him.— [Locke. •'•' f ",l jlteceiv.c no satisfaction for premeditated ...ini.pertinence ; forget, forgive it, but keep „'him inexorably at a distance who offered it. r.'{La.vater. . ,-",•'', , Affection i 3 the good man's shining scene ; ' Prosperity wmoeals hid brighte.it ray ; As uiglit to stard, woe lustre gives to man. ,:.:■- ... —[Young. •■ Singular that the word mispr, so often expressive of one who is rich, should, in its origiu, signify one that is miserable. — [ Browne,