An Oriental Proverb.
“Good striving
Brings thriving.
Better a dog that works
Than a lion that shirks.”
A Source of Weakness.—A frequent source of weakness lies in the notion that what we do at the moment does not matter much, because we shall be able to alter and mend and patch it as we like by-and-by.
Melancholy Words.
The words “no more,” it was once remarked by Madame de Staël, both in sound and sense are more expressive of melancholy meaning than any others in the English language.
If not before these, at least second in the scale may be placed the single word “alone,” and next to this “never.”
Two Halves make a Whole.