MAXIMS FROM THE MORALISTS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8892, 12 August 1907, Page 1

MAXIMS FROM THE MORALISTS

Every virtue has its own flaws. A woman once married is for ever a slave. A man who is always bored is ' always boring. Living next door to a church is no guarantee that you are near to heaven. A sure way of making enemies is to speak oue's mind fully on all oc-' casions. A man whose words are many and whose deeds are few is like a garden full of weeds. Woman's chief mission lias always been and over will bo the moral amelioration of man. When wo have passed 50, it is not tho fact that we are old which saddens us, but that we arc jio longer young. Happiness is not lightly acquired ; it is very difficult to iind within ourselves, but to search elsewhere is labour lost. In order to be respceted one must not be too greatly loved; love is the forerunner of familiarity, and familiarity is the mother of contempt. A wise man is he who knows £ how to subdue his passions, look after his interests, who understands the meaning of the word, "sacrifice," and having once acquired wealth is capable of retaining it.