VARIETIES.
It is a short step from modesty to humility; but a shorter one from vanity to folly, and from weakness to falsehood.—Lavater. A man should neven be ashamed to own be has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.—Pose. The improvement of the understanding is fer two ends; first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge 10 others,— Locke. He who despises the great is condemned, to, honor the little; aqd he who is in. love will* trifles can have no taste for the great. Tbju passions may be humoured till, lbey become our masters, as a horse may be pampered till he gets the better of his rider; but early discipline will prevent mutiny, and keep the helm in the bands of reason.— CUHBEBLAND. The firm without pliancy, and the pliant without firmness, resemble vessels without Water, and water without vessels.—Lavatkr. Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas, a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.— sflgSlßTQ!<Ej
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 13, 20 August 1862, Page 24
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189VARIETIES. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume II, Issue 13, 20 August 1862, Page 24
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