GEMS OF THOUGHT
STRIVING. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties. — Anon. He that wrestles with us strengthens ,our nerves, and sharpens our skill, our antagonist is our helper.—Burke. It is the temper of the highest hearts to strive most upwards when they arc most burdened. —Sir Philip Sidney. In the battle of life, good is made more industrious and persistent because of the supposed activity l of evil. —Mary Baker Eddy. To wrestle with the angel—this prevails, though the purpose of the wrestling fails.—Anon. Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but wc an incorruptible —I Corinthians 9:25.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1940, Page 8
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