Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1910 Book 06

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

Page 392

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3. The storm which begins by violently stirring up the dust ends in completely laying it down by means of the showers that acconipany it.
4. We would have known one another much better, did we not try to make ourselves out as equal, one to the other. The difficulty with great men is this that people, unable to place themselves on the same level with them, try to pick holes and draw them down to their own level.
5. It is 110 doubt advisable for a man of action to do what is good and profitable'; but there is 110 call to go out of one's way and uduly worry oneself as to whether the thing in question was done or not.
6. There are many people who walk about hammering ou the wall, thinking that every stroke tells by falling right on the nail
7. Those who strive against a righteous movement hit ir piece of burning coal: by hitting, they do but spread it far and wide
8. Man would not have been the greatest being on earth that he is, if his greatness had not exceeded the necessity of the world,
9. Even with a deal of good feelings and good wishes, a neighbour is not easily known: if bad feelings intervene, theu indeed everything becomes warped.
10. Tlie man who knows 110 other languiage save and except his own knows not even that well.
11. The errors and indiscretions of early life do 110 serious liarm: but manhood has to be careful that these be 110$ dragged forward.
12. Empty self-praise may not be a nice-smelling thing I admit, but what becomes of the fastidious nose of people when tliere is the stink of the unjust slander of others ?