Good Thaughts.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 645, 11 February 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Good Thaughts.

; Deceit.—The smooth-spoken slave is the niost deceitful one. ■ ■. j Mistakes.—Our very mistakes in life-may-be overruled for a higher end, and our tears w>ter growth that may be rich with immortal foliage and fruit. ■ ■'. „ ! Forgotten CHORDS;—There are. strings in the harp of every life, though covered with dust; that give out music when, the wings of truth stir the air. ;■ :■: :. ] What Ought to be Done.—Don't live a single hour of your life without doing exactly what : ought to be done in it, and going right straight through it from beginning to end. . To-Morrow's Burden.— No man ever sank under the burden of to-day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day that the weight is more than a man can bear.

Growing Old.—We should no more lament that we have 'grown old than the husbandman, when the bloom and fragrance of spring have passed away, should lament that summer or autumn has come.

Perfect Men.—A man who shows no defeet is a fool or a hypocrite whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to the fine qualities that they announce them—defects which it is not well to correct. Luck.—Bad luck is simply a man with his hands in his pockets and his pipe in his mouth, looking on to see how it will come out. Good luck is a man of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up and working to make it come out right. Good Humor.—lt matters not whether our good humor be construed by others into insensibility, or even idiotism. It is happiness to ourselves, and none but a fool would measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. PEBSEVEKANCE.-r-Allthe performances of human art at.which,we look with praise or wonder are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. It is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. Poetry acts chiefly at the earlier stage of human conditions, be they either quite rude, half-civilised, or in a transitional period of civilisation, or at the first acquaintance with an ; alien civilisation, so that one may say the action of novelty is always concerned in it.