THOUGHTS OF MASTER MINDS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 August 1917, Page 2

THOUGHTS OF MASTER MINDS.

"What wc have always .seen done in one way we are, apt to imagine there was but that one way."—Bentley. ".Oppression and sickness and sorrow ~-' and pain Shall be to our true love as links to the chain."' —Longfellow. " When a young lady lias angelic features, eats nothing to speak of, plays all day long on the piano, and sings ravishingly in. church, it requires a rough infidelity, falsely, called cynicism, to believe that she may be a little" devil after all."— U. L: Stevenson.

" A man's attitude towards age, as it touches both himself and his affords no mean test of the temper of his soul. He who has learnt to bear patiently the infirmities of others, and to contemplate with serenity the limitations wliich the advancing years will'-impose upon himself, is not going to school under Life, the yeat teacher, hi vuiii."—Anon...

"Let ns yield to our fortune, and meet it with fortitude."—Herodotus.' "A religion of sympathy always ends by expectuig more sympathy than it gives."—Fovsvth.

As gold is tried, by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the hollowhearted Friend is known bv adversity"— Anon. s . " ' J "Girls usually accept the man who'happens to propose to them., unless they' actually want some other man to propose to them at the time."—Maartens. _ He who does the best he can is alwavs improving. His best of yesterday is outdone to-day, and his best of to-'dav will be outdone to-morrow. It i s this steadv progress no matter from what point it starts, that forms the chief element of all greatness and goodness. " [". our heart of hearts believing Victory crowns the just. And that braggarts must Surely bite the dust. Tress we to the field ungrieving." Thomas Hardy. '"•The guns win positions, but the infantry occupy and keep them. 7 '—General' retain. Be thankful if you can reallv appreciate beautiful things, even though you may never own them. For appreciation is a possession that none can ever take from you.