The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-09-08
THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST

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When those who preach against injustice car avoid being unjust them
selves then will they inspire the confidence of the world. The tendency
in avoiding n extreem is to rush around the circle until the same point
is reached from the other side
Although the Allies thought they had disarmed Germany it would ap-
pear that they left her her gas.
After "aotators" have been est u owe all lines of business and
most of the professional sports there will perhaps arise a job for % n
to dictate to the dictators.
Some persons are able to paint a very good picture Of truth and then
proceed to varnish the canvass.
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After all there is a possibility of Illicit dstning wearing itself out. At
ter the distilers make enough money they will quit and then all that is neces
sry is to prevent others from starting. 1t sounds easy.
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1t requires superhuman ingenuity to determine how to address a letter
o a woman who signs her name without the prefix Miss or Misses.
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Gossip is a much mahgned old dame. Often she is kindly o harmless
but she is constantly being confused with Dame Scandal who is a wicked
What Erin needs most is a operation to take the Ire out o Ireland.
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There is truth if pewimism in the Boston Heralds definition of a Re
public as "a country where everyone knows what ought to be done and no
one knows how o do it,
There is little use in having a million dollars unless one knows how to
spend it. And the spendes seldom accumulate a million.
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What ne will get in this world and in the hereafter as well depends
on what n wants and how hard n strives to get i.
Energy expended creates energy. Without opposition to overcome &C
tvity has nothing to expend itself upon. He who has nothing to do is the
on who most needs sympathy,
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Everyone ees life through his W pnhole and the closer n gets his
eye to the pnhole the broader is his vision which is narrow enough at best
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Action does not signify progress always but action governed by thought
car 10Y worlds.
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Success can be achieved without the sacrifice of or at the expense of
others. The best types of success are creative and humanity helping.
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Often one finds he has been laundering in shallow waterw when he mus
tiers up courage Ito rest his feet on rock bottom.
graduated that he has such comfort. He who believes that this
physical existence is but one of many and that man reincarnates
again and again until he has achieved his part in the divine plan and
gets satisfaction and comfort in that belief, has the right to what
he obtains from it. So with the spiritualist, the belief is j his own.
others may accept or reject it as they will, but what good may come
from it to him is his rightfully and he is entitled to take t if he will
Spiritualism is not likely to become a universal faith and there
is nothing in it that other creeds need fear so, whether it's advocates
be novelists or scientists or persons of small education they may be
to go their own way. If there be mediums who arc
frauds so there are charhtans in all walks of life, men and women
who make a livelihood by dupng others. But those honest in their
belief have their right to be undisturbed in it and it should be re-
membered there is a difference between fortune telers" and the
'SpirituaGStic medium"