OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 9

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

When the judgement's weak, the prejudice is strong.—Kane O'Hara. Music lends expression to that fer which speech has no words.—Carmen Sylva. » • • It is a goodly thing to die with the blessed consciousness of never having taken advantage of another's iafirmfty, or poverty, or ignorance.—Henri Perreyvo. # « • We are builders of our own characters.—J. F. W. Ware. # * •. The sand is flowing out of the glass day and night, night and day; shake it not. You have a work Gordon. # # w By trouble we learn the way of right-eousness--thai is, the way of obedience. —Lyman Abbott, D.D. The craftsman who fashionß with his own hand the shapes which he has designed in his own mind, after the desire of his own heart.—he, at any rate, is not a living machine.—G. Wyudham, M.P. # « » Truth is a structure reared on the battlefield of contending forces.—Dr. Winchell. Youth is invariably present in the old age of a great man. He never completely lose 3 life's elixir.—Professor HarrisBickford. The gentleman exists to help; he has no other vocation. —T. T. Munger. We should not be worthy to be the sons of our fathers if we did not go forward on the plain path of national duty. —Conan Doyle. Man gives from principle; woman from sympathy.—John Pulseford. # * * There is no greater philanthropist in the country than the working man who shares his loaf of bread with his neighbour.—Mr. Will Crooks. # * * Leisure for men of business, and business for men of leisure, would cure many complaints.—Mrs. Thrale. Truth, like cork, will be uppermost at one lime or another, though kept down in the water. —Isaac Taylor, It is a great service to create an honest smile as we meet one another in this heavy-laden world. —Rev. Dinsdale T. Young. Women's work is the greatest and most lasting when it is womanly.—Mrs. J. R. M! Stephens. # « * Politics. The public side of duty.— Dr. Dale. # » • It is far better to pin a rose in a man's coat than to send twenty wreaths to his funeral.—E. H. Manley. It has always appeared to me that good manners are almost as valuable an asset in commercial as in diplomatic I affairs.—Lord Cromer.

Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.—Dhammapah*. A man cannot possess anything that is belter than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.—Simonidis. In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds.—Nizami. Depend not on another, rather lean upon theyself; tru«t to thiHe own exertions, subjection te another's will gives pain,—Manu. Keep they heart afar frota sorrow, and be not anxious abeut the treuble which is not yet come. —Fridausi. As concerns the quantity of what is to be read, there is a single rule: read much, but not many works.—Sir W. Hamilton. Some people cultivate a simple manner. It is a useful thing to cultivate, when one wishes to throw dust in other people's eyes.—Richard Bagot. The noblest motive is the public good. —Vr.-gil. * # * Whatever else educational authorities and controversialists are about just now, everybody agrees that the problem of the future is largely a teacher question,— Archbishop of Canterbury. The healthiest, most cheerful and most wasteful heat producer is the old-fash-ioned fireplace—D. Forbes. The world is now so closely linked together that no two nations can go to war without presenting problems that have to be solved by other nations whose trade and interests are affected,—Sir R. B. Finlay, M.P. * * * We often clothe people in fine robes from the wardrobe of imagination, and do not see that the bundle of shrunk shanks inside is ludicrously inadequate in their rickety disproportions to such fine trappings.—J. 11. Balfour Browne. Ministers should first preach to themselves, then afterwards to others.—Cardinal Pole. Purity of mind is nobler than innocence; it is the delicacy of reflection, not the coyness of ignorance.—Mary Wollstoneeraft. * • • ' Austerity in women is sometimes the accompaniment of a rare power of loving.—Amiel. ' * * * Any man worthy '..f the name is only too willing to make a fool of himself for the sake of a woman.—Frank Richardson. The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.—PJioedrus. To pose is not to impose, but to expose,—Jean Liserol. Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.—Calming. When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.—Henrv Fielding. ' » * « Truth la eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. , -r-Jwnes Russell Lowell, 1