KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 269, 19 August 1872, Page 3

KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.

Pay no attention to slanderers or gossipmongers. Keep straight on your course, - and let their back-biting die the death of neglect. What is the use lying awake nights, brooding over the remarks of some false ‘riend, that runs through your . brain like forked lightning ? What’s the use ot getting into worry and fret over gossip that has been set afloat to your disadvantage by some meddlesome busybody, who has more time than character? These things can’t possibly injure you, unless, indeed, you take notice of them, an I in combating them, give them chaiactor and standing. If what is said about you is true, set yourself right at once ; if it is false, let it go for what it will fetch. If a bee sting you, would you go to the hive and destroy it? would not a thousand come upon you ? It is wisdom to say little respecting the injuries you have received. We are generally losers in the end if we Rtop to refute all the backbitings and gossipings wo may hear by the way. Tney are annoying, it is true, but not dangerous so long as we do not stop to expostulate and scold. Our characters are formed and sustained by ourselves, and by our own actions and purposes, and not by others. Let uu always hear in mind, that “calumnies may usually be trusted to time ’and the slow nut steady justice of public opinion.” —Sydney News.