GEMS OF THOUGHT
CIRCUMSTANCES. Whatever happens in the world, let us sing and say, We will wait what God the Lord will do. —Martin Luther. I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.—Horace. At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil. —Mary Baker Eddy. He is happy whose circumstances .suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. —Hufne. The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without. —Defoe. Calm soul of all things, make it mine, To feel, amid the city’s jar; That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make and cannot mar. —‘Matthew Arnold.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1940, Page 8
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