Worth Cutting Out.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2128, 23 October 1896, Page 4

Worth Cutting Out.

The following are selections iron* Defoe's "Principles of Koligion. 03 condensed by (lie "Literary World' :- Consider that ill usage from some kinds of people can't he helped, and therefore don't be worried by it. Notice what a deal of time and ease ~.,,, -,„. oain.'d by letting your neighbor's affairs alone. Don') torment yourseit because things don't happen just as you would have them. Never think anything below you. if somebody docs you an injury, what of itV The best way to revenge it is not to imitate it.

When ruffled, retire into your reason* Don't make the mistake of withholding a good word from your contemporaries and commending yourself. If convinced of an error change your, opinion, and be thankful. Because a thing is difficult, don't instantly conclude that you can't do it. Nothing can happen to you but what comes from Providence. Let people's tongues say what they will; your business is to live so that nobody shall believe them. H will not be long before we shall forgot the world and the world us. If you want to recommend yourself to thl' public, do it by your candor and modesty. If you can't convince your frieud or an error with secrecy and civility, ltt him alone. Under the greatest vexations consider that life lasts but a moment.

Gentleness and good humor are invincible.

Always let it bo your first and principal rare to guard against anger on the one hand and flattery on the other,