BETTER THOUGHTS FOR QUIET MOMENTS.
' How easy it is to be openhanded when it involves no self-deniaL
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man.
Character is a mosaic which takes a lifetime for its completion, and trifles, the little things of life, are the instruments most used in preparing each precious stone for its place. It is no man's business whether he has genius or not; work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily; and the natural and enforced results of such work will be always the things that God meant him to do, and will be his best. Perhaps a gentleman is a rarer man than some of us think. Which of us can point out many such in his circle-—men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant, and not only cons'ant in its kind but elevated in its degree ; whose want of mean- ! ness makes them simple, who can look the world honestly in the face with an equal ■ manly sympathy for the great and the «mall ?— Thackeray. The conclusion that I arrive at is, that without temperance there is no health ; without virtue no order ; without religion r no happiness ; and that the sum of our being is to live wisely, soberly, and righteously.—M'Donough.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4964, 6 December 1884, Page 4
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