GEMS OF THOUGHT
WORDS: THEIR POWER AND BEAUTY. lie sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.—Psalms 107:20 ' Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from ago to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words—George Horne. Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. —Confucius. Whatever weighs in the eternal scale of equity and mercy tips the beam on the right side, where the immortal words and deeds of men' alone can settle all questions amicably and satis-factorily.--Mary Baker Eddy. Words, like fine flowers, have their colours too. —Ernest Rhys. | I love smooth words, like gold-enamel-/ led fish, Which circle slowly with a silken swish; And tender ones, like downy-feather-ed birds, Words shy and dappled, deep-eyed deer in herds. —Elinor Wylie.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1941, Page 6
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