THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 April 1928, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

VALUE Ol' A REPUTATION A "oocj repijial i«»n is un>re valuable - Sv rus. THE REWARD (>F VIRTUE For !>lc:. in;;.- ever "ait on virtuou " deedr-. Ynd t h<'iiizli J lute - : .--lire.n> v ; .:id -ij" —William Congieve. » • • • p. r r iv ! ■ : ,!«,., men Y-.- e«er rlij.plaviug <■■ ■ -•• the I'tr'-ngth of their belief. whih,,,,i,,-,.-,., nipn .He- :h""!!':: ynu the ~,,.,,,,[ f.., ,t.— f-hpni tone. COX; < JEM E AND THE TONOUE Speak always' according to ynnr eon . ,|.•p.'c. Inn. do ii ill t'-nii.- of good mil lire and modesty mid sincerity.— Maivu- Aurelius. * * * ■* THE UEEAT LEVER Millll is the great lever of :i!l thin;;: ; human thought is tlie process by which human ends are ultimately answered. --Diinie! Webster. * « * * PE.U K MUST BE DEFENDED Peace is :iii inestimable jewel, but ii will In.' soon snatched from those who are not prepared with heart and hand to defend it.—Sir We her Seott. * * * » (iREAT MEN ARE TRUE .MEN (ileal men ere the true men, the men in whom Nature lias sueeeeded. It is the nt her s peek's of men who are not what they ought to be. — Aniiel. * x » # SERVICE Serve and tlioti slialt be served. If you love and serve men, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the re in u nerat ion.—Emerson. * * • FROM WITHIN The <nie security for personal fidelity and effective achievement lies in working from within; from the native love of order, beauty, right; from faith in thorn a.- the mastering powers of the out.r world: from reverent allegiance to them which makes acquiescence in | their defeat impiety. —Mart menu. **' * * BEAUTY Let us use ii whilst we may; Snatch those joys that haste away. Earth her winter coat may car-t, And renew her beauty part; But, our winter come, in \ain | We s'-licit spring again: And when our furrows snow shall cover, ' Luif mav return, bui never lover. I —Sir Kiehard Eanshawe. | MELODIES 01' TIME Kin " oul'l; t thou hear the mi lodbn \ nf time Linen "hen ?lecp its'! rlro»?y rlarknr-;? ! roll . | Over hurtled ritier. and the- midnight] chi me ■ | Sounds from their hundred clocks, and I deep bells toll, Like a last knell over the dead world's soul.—Thomas Hood." * *. * # WHENCE COMES SOLACE? Whence come;; solace? Nol from seeing What i:- doing. siifi'ering, being; Nut from noting life's conditions. Not from heeding Time's monitions; Hut in cleaving to the Dream And in ga/.ing at the gleam Whercbv -rev things golden seem. 4 —Thomas Hardy. MUSIC. WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE j Music, when soft voices die. Vibrates in the memory Odours, when sweet violets sicken. Live within the sense they qui.ken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead. Are heaped for the beloved's bed: And so thy thoughts, when thou are gone Love itself =-lial! slumber on.—Shelley. * * * * MEANS TO ATTAIN HAPPY LIFE Martial, the things that, do attain The happv lite be these. J find: The riches left, not got with pain: ! The fruitful ground; the quiet mind; The equal friend; no grudge, no strife: No charge of rule, no governai : Without disease, the healthful life; The household of continuance: The mean diet, no delicate fare: J

True wkdom joined with i.jmpb'ne:-!.: The. night discharged of all . are. Where wine the wii mav not oppress; The faithful v, ife, vv ithout. debate; Such sleeps as may beguile the night Contented with thine own e.-tate. >;,, \k i-.h for death, no feai his might Henry Howard. Earl of Sin rev. THE OLD WOULD ALWAYS NEW They irl! ii oe Itave fallen "ti pro-.y day.-. i' ; ,,.,|,MiH t.- /Jean th" leavings H earth'; tea;'. V, t.e.-e :: ...l and hr-rorv tool: delight •' o!dV K'li though our live:- mo mg in one rlull round Ot repetition mrmitr-. br-eonf. ;.t..h> a.- ■>. newspaper onm read and though Hi; lory herself, ■ ecu in her workshop, seem To have l->:-i the art that dyed tho-c gloriiitiM panes h'ieh vvitii ineiuorial shape- of -aim and sage. That pave with splendour the PastV dusky aisles— Fane-, that enchant the lighi of eoninion day With colours costly as the blood id king.-. Until it edge our though' with dues idealVet while the world i- left. while Nature hist-. And man the be-l of Nature, there shall be Somewhere contentment for these human hearts. Smile fresh lies-, -nine iiiiu-ed material For wonder and for song. -.lame- Kil-sel] Lowell. » * * * FRIENDSHIP A man is the best friend in trouble, but a woman may be equal to him in the day.- of joy: a woman can a- well increase our comforts, but cannot so well lessen our sorrows: and therefore we do not carry women with u- when we i'o to light: but ill peaceful eiti"jiiiil lime- virtuous women are the beauties of society and the prettiue- : . of friend-hip. And when we consider that few persons in tin- world hive all those excellencies by which friend ship can be useful and illustrious, we mav as well allow women as nrln m be'friends-; since they can have all that which can lie necessary and essential to friendships, and the-e cannot have all by which friendship- can he accidentally improved. In all some abatement.- will be made: and we shall do too much honour to women if we reject them from friendships because th'ev are not perfect-. for if to friendships we admit imperfect men. because no man is perfect . he thai rejects women due, tiiid fault with them becau'-e they are not more perfect than men. which roller doe : ;e, retlv affirm I ''H t IV'V 00-lo and can he perlct. or eh e i» openly a<-cnr-e: men of injustice it jalst v. —Jeremy Taylor.