GEMS OF THOUGHT
INDUSTRY. What men want is not talent; it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour. —Bulwer-Lytton. The darkest hour in the history of any young man is when he sits down to study how to get money without honestly earning it. —Horace Greeley. Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest we must sow the seed. —Gemaliel Bailey. When a young man vainly boasted, “I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,” Epictetus made answer, “And I with many rich men,.but I am not rich.” The richest blessings are obtained by labour. —Mary Baker Eddy. A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. — Whately. Industry hath annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards. —Barrow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1942, Page 6
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