A STRING OF PEARLS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2342, 15 October 1921, Page 4

A STRING OF PEARLS.

(By Dr. F. Crane.)

The Chinese have, a saying that “a collection of good sentences resembles a string of pearls.” A few are submitted for your necklace.

1. Every kind of effort is useful except, worry.

2. Ignorance is the hardest thing in Ihe world to discover, especially your own; only the very wise can see it.

3. As most insane people think they are sane, so the fool is surest of his own knowledge.

4. The best mirror in which to see yourself is your Work. 5. The seed of’all Tragedy is a failure in Courage. *6. “To the hero there is no tragedy.” (Maerterlinek.)

7. “Butterflies are the souls of torn-up love letters.” . (Victor Hugo.)

8. Only the great realise their littleness.

9. The only way to get anywhere is to start from where you stand. 10. “It is never too late for the soul of man.” (Olive Schreiner.) 11. Appreciation is to the human soul what the rain from heaven is to the plant. 12. The only practical use of Death is to show us what is worth while in Life. 13. “It takes two to tell the truth.” (Thoreau.)

14. There is but one sensible prayer; it is to know the Will of God. 15. All there is to Efficiency is to know what are Essentials and do them alone.

16. You cannot prevent Evil Thought from knocking at your door, but you need not let him in.

17. Being good is as much a matter of practice as playing the violin.

18. There is but one quality we all hate. It is Egotism. And it has a thousand disguises. 19. Only the useful is beautiful. Only the beautiful is useful.

20. Love is not blind. Love is the only thing that can see. 21. Man is like a bicycle; he is safe from falling only as he keeps going on.

22. The best antiseptic is health. 23. The best way to kill a lie is to keep on telling it. 24. Sincerity is more convincing than eloquence. 25. The bitterest pessimists are the young. For one soured old man I can show you ten soured young men.

26. The first and easiest noise is crying; and people can criticise, complain and croak who cannot do anything else.

27. No one is so much a slave to habit as Nature; the Sun never rises in the West.

28. Success may be an accident, but Failure is always a habit.

29. There is no intelligent Faith that has not grown out of honest Doubts. » i

30. A fault acknowledged is half cured.

31. Do unto yourself as you would have others do unto you. 32. Education consists of'correcting errors of Common Sense.

33. No literature was ever produced by one who wrote about people or things he did not know and did not love.‘