WORDS OF WISDOM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 8 October 1891, Page 4

WORDS OF WISDOM.

Nothing refines like aftection. Family jarring vulgarises ; family unison elevates. Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. I Life is at most a meeting and a parting : a glimpse into the world of might have been. — Gerald Massey. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a I shadow that never leaves him. | The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.— Carlyle. ! Nothing is so good for an ignorant man j ! as silence, and, if he was sensible of this, he ( would not be ignorant. — Saadi. \ In proportion as we recognise more fully j the truest work and culture of humjm life, \ we shall appreciate the sphere and influence ! of woman. — Milburn. ' Life, at the greatest and best, is but'a savage child that must be humoured and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all | the care is over. — Goldsmith. [ Think of living. Thy life, wert thou the pitifullest ot all the daughters ot earth, is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own, it is all thou hast to front eternity : with. Work then. — Carlyle. Man postpones or remembers ; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye ' laments the past, or, heedless of the riches" that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. — Emerson. ! Friendship is seldom truly tried but in extremes. To find friends when we have no need of them, and to want them when we have, are both alike easy and common. — Feltham. The hiding-places of man are discovered by affliction.— As one has aptly said—" Our refuges are like the nests of birds ; in summer they are hidden away among the green leaves, but in winter they are seen among the naked branches." — J. W. Alexander. Ennui. — Thereis nothingso insupportable ■ o man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerlessness, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair — Pascal. Friendship. — The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined. It is for aid and comfort in all passages of life or death. It is fit for serene days and graceful gifts and country rambles, and also for rough roads, aud hard fares, shipwreck, poverty, and persecution. — Emerson. Heaven. — How incomparably excellent is the glory of heaven, where no changes shall be, where shall be wonderful advancement, but without injustice; abundance of glory, but without envy ; infinite wealth, but without woe ; admirable beauty and felicity, but without vanity or infirmity. — liolton. Death. — There is nothing more certain than death, nothing more uncertain than the time of dying. I will, therefore, be pre- | pared for that at all times, which may come at any time, must come at one time or | another. I shall not hasten my death by | being still ready, but sweeten it. It makes me not die the sooner but the better. — iVarwicli. Sin and Sorrow.— Passion and prejudice, bad habits, selfishness, indifference, lack of principle., unregulated desires, undisciplined feelings, are the main cause of sin and sorrow. The more fully we appreciate this truth the more capable shall we be of distinguishing degrees of guilt, and of lifting up those who need our help far more than they deserve our censure. Childhood and Manhood. — Our life in childhood has an infinite significance. At that period everything is of like importance to us; we hear all, we see all. There is uniformity in all our impressions. In later life there is always premeditation. We occupy ourselves with specialities, we sedulously exchange the pure gold of intuition for the paper-money of book definitions, to ;>ain in breadth of view what we lose in | depth of feeling. — Hcinrkh Heine. Education. — The ultimate endofeduca=ation is to promote morality and refinement by teaching men to discipline them- ! -selves, and by leading them to see that the , highest, as it is the only contest, is to be ' attained, not by grovelling in the rank and steaming valleys of sense, but by continually .striving towards those high peaks, where, j resting in eternal calm, reason discerns the undefined but bright ideal of the highest j good— a cloud by day, a pillar by night. — i J Professor Huxley. | Home. — The pain which is felt when w« ■.ire first translated from our native soil, i when the living branch is cut from the parent tree, is one of the most poignant which we have to endure through life. There are after-griefs which wound more deeply, which leave behind them scars never to be r effaced, which bruise the spirit and sometimes break the heart ; but never do we feel so keenly the want of love, the necessity of being loved, and the utter sense of deseriion, as when we first leave the haven of home, and are, as it were, pushed off on the stream of life. — Southey. Blessing Others. — There is one way of attaining what we may term, if not utter, at least mortal happiness, it is this — a sincere , and unrelaxing activity for the happiness of others. In that one maxim is concentrated whatever is noble in morality, sublime in religion, or unanswerable in truth. In that I pursuit we have all scope for whatever is !• excellent in our hearts, and none for the I petty passions which our nature is heir to. Thus engaged, whatever be our errors, there will be nobility, not weakness, in our remorse; whatever our failures, virtue, not selfishness, in our regrets ; and in success vanity itself will become holy, and triumph i-ternal. — Lord Lyilon. Hope. — "Work without hope," says Coleridge, "draws nectar in a sieve." Within ;; the nectar is a durable possession and a ojaseless stimulus. We have not yet ati:iined. It will be better on the morrow. Net even scepticism in its most violent forms ;:-ui kill hope in men. They will hope insome ihing or somebrclj . If you take away God, •.i>*7 will bring Humanity, and put "that in His place. You can more e ;i .:::ly destroy us than make us cease to hope. Thus experi ;:ice and instinct lead us on from weakness :■) strength, from defeat to achievement. !rnm achievement to effort, until we shall i)« made perlect and complete. Humanity blnrkl v refusestodie in despair. — Dr. Cliji'ord. iiNERGy in like. — To live really, is v. act energetically. Life is a battle to iv lought valiantly. Inspired by lii^h anc: iionourable resolve, a man must stand to hipost, and die there if need be. Like the o!e Danish hero, his determination should' he. • to dare nobody, to will strongly, and nevei :o (alter in the path of duty." ' Tiie pov.c, ->i will, be it threat or small, which God ha: 4iven us, is a Divine and we ou^fn ? neither to let it perish for want oi usin^ or. ;he one hand nor profane it by einployins: it for ignoble purposes on the. other. Knb.- |. sun, of Brighton, has truly said, "Thai •nan's real greatness consists not in seekm,niu own pleasure, or fame, or acivance'i-.ei:; -not that every one shall save hi* own lie not that every one shall seek h: 3 own vl<>; ■> — but that every man shall do bis own duty — .!>).( i leu