FROM HERE AND THERE

 

FROM HERE AND THERE

Under this title are given below a few short but meaningful sentences. They will not only enhance your knowledge but will also make you much wiser. Read them and commit them to your memory. You will become more positive, self-confident, hopeful and adventurous.  But let yourself remain humble and gentle. Don’t become arrogant. Knowledge has no limits. Nobody can become perfectly learned.  In a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), the hero of the poem Ulysses says:  

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!

As tho’ to breathe were life! Life piled on life

Were all too little, and of one to me

Little remains, but every hour is saved

From that eternal silence, something more,

A bridge of new things; and vile it were

For some three suns to store and hoard myself,

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

To  follow knowledge like a sinking star.

 

Selections under ‘From Here And There’

 

1. Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise. 2. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven. 3. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. 4. Man perfected by society is the best of all animals. 5. Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. 6. Make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. 7. In human life there is constant change of fortune. 8. Nature is the living, visible garment of God. 9. Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. 10. A suspicious parent makes an artful child. 11. To know how to wait is the great secret of success. 12. Beware the fury of a patient man. 13. Much rain wears the marble. 14. What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. 15. He prayeth best who loveth best. 16. Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd. 17. We rise in glory as we sink in pride. 18. Prosperity’s right hand is industry, and her left hand is frugality. 19. Our best thoughts come from others. 20. Sorrows remembered

sweeten present joy.

 

G.R.Kanwal

6^th May 2025