A STEING OF PEARLS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3788, 17 February 1881, Page 3

A STEING OF PEARLS.

Why repent a second time of an action of which we Save already repented. A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman satisfies the heart—the one is a jewel, the other a treasure. i He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must himself pass, for every man hath need to be for-

given. - To a man of a delicate and sensitive mind, nothing is so truly revolting as the discovery of an offensive habit in the jyoman he respects. Some men's only stock in trade are their misfortunes. These they are ?lways trying to force upon the market, but they rarely ever find a purchaser. A passionate and revengeful temper renders a man unfit for advice, deprives him of his reason, and robs him of all that is great and noble in his nature. Nothing can be more unfounded than ihe> action that a love of reading, or of science, or of any kind of knowledge, unfits a man for his daily occupation, or makes him discontented with it. A Mahomedan writer, speaking of the different sects of his religion, says: "Sectaries are different, bacause they spl'ing from men; but morality is the ■aame'.throughout, because it springs from ' Henevolence does not measure its charities too nicely. The clouds never send down to ask the grass and plants •below how much they need ; they rain for the relief of their own full bosoms.

A man diseased in body can have little joy of his wealth, be it ever so much. A golden crown cannot cure the headache, nor a velvet slipper give ease to ihe gout, nor « purple robe drive away a burning fever.

Tasso being told that he had a fair opportunity of taking advantage of a very bitter enemy—" I wish not to plunder him," said he, " but there are things I wish to take away from him—not his honor, his wealth, or his Hfe-^-but his ill-will."