DON’T MIND THE GOSSIPS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2262, 12 April 1921, Page 4

DON’T MIND THE GOSSIPS

A noise, merely annoys. Even a thunderclap is harmless. Sound never yet produced a dent. Gossip is simply the outburst of envy and malice, like a Chinese tire-cracker; often a fizz and usually dangerous onlv to him who exploded it.

Hissing snakes are seldom deadly. The cobra, the fer-de-lanoe, the copper-head and the mocassin do not advertise. Chattering birds are always harmless. Jho raven and the crow are arrant cowards; the eagle swoops without outcry.

Menace does not wag a longue. The cruelty of the calumniator lies in his words, and no! in his bite. Envy and malice are toothless curs ready to run at the first impulse. Only strong men can check or wreck you, and (lie strong do not .-.loop to meanness. They strike with clean weapons, and not ivir.li l he rusty sword of slander,

Every falsehood that is hurled against your.reputation is in your favour. It offers you a chance to prove the truth, to show yourself as voii are-, to demonstrate what you have done. Before the supreme tribunal of society only fads are weighed and counted. If you possess right and might you will always have the opportunity to stand forth in your true light. You know when and where vjou are wrong. You are the only living soul who truly comprehends your ads. You are the sole judge of your real character. You cannot expect to find all men as well posted as yourself. You cannot be sane-and seem so to all persons. There are so'many weaklings, half-wits, apes, sourhrains, meddlers, hot-heads, and hypocrites in the world that no course of action can possibly appear fair and sound to everybody.

You-cannot make a move without treading, on at least one sore foot. You cannot have a cause which does not conflict with the ambitions of another. If you are so thin-skinned and sensitive that you can be hailed by disbelief and turned back by ridicule you may as .well relinquish your ambitions, retire from the contest, and acknowledge at the very outset that you are incapable of conquering your egotism.

No man ever lived for an unusual liopc and managed to escape from mud-slinging. It is the inevitable accompaniment of personal progress.

Power is hateful to those who cannot posses.- it. Only a few are able to struggle to the heights, but, the ann that Jacks the smews th reach the goal is too puny to hurl a hurl ful missile.

Those who lack capability arc the last to acknowledge its existence in their betters. The dullard is the hardest; to convince and least capable of measuring the forces which ho cannot comprehend.

If you arc determined to rise, you must first learn to disregard nonessentials: you must cense to fritter your valuable energy worrying about the opinions of people who do not count. You must employ your lime and your thoughts for important and vital tilings. Julias Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon Bonaparte. Abraham Lincoln, and 1 lysse.- Gran! managed 1.0 get along fairly well in -pile of their doubting contemporaries. The head dial rises highest uiti-i expect to Income die large! of fools. — “The Kllicicut Age.”