THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 4 August 1928, Page 12

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

THE CHURCH AND REASON Tlio Church has no fear of just leasouers. —Beaconslield. *. * # * . ILL-ASSORTED A great empire and little minds go ill together. —Burke. *"* # » TIME ! Take time, make time, find time, mind time, choose time, use time.—Old Saying. * * * * THE SCHOOL OF SUFFERING It is only through suffering that wo learn to pity and comfort others.— Anon. * * # * VVHE,N TO ACT As soon as you feel too old to do a thing—do it.—Margaret Dcland. * * #•-■•# CONTINUING THE RACE He that rises again quickly and continues his race is as if he had never fallen.—Molinos". * * # *, ' SELF-CONTROL There is one thing more important than knowing self; it is governing self. —II. R. Hawcis. * # * * THE MASK OF MEDIOCRITY Persistent gravity is but the , mask: of' mediocrity.—Cicero. * * *■ i * AN INTELLIGENT BEING An intelligent being bears within himself the means to transcend his own nature. —Henri Bergson. jS- * * ' # FEAR Fear is a state of feebleness that leaves us defenceless in face of the victorious attacks of our enemies.—Goethe. * * ■» «■' " DESPERATION Desperation is tho mistress of the impossible.—Spanish proverb. 1 # * * * TRUTH Make Truth lovely, and do not try to arm her—mankind will then be far less, inclined to contend with lier.— Joubert. -> * * * LITTLE THINGS AND BIG THINGS A little thing is a little thing, but a little thing well'done is a big thing.— Anon. ~ , THE BLESSING OF FORGETFULNESS How easily people forget, and what a blessing it is that -'they do.—Douglas Goulding. WHEN TO ASK THE HELP OF OTHERS When we have done our very, very hest, and that is not enough, then . . . the right time must have come for asking help of others. —Dickens. ... « * * * A QUEEN'S MOTTO Let us never hear the word "trouble." Only tell me how the thing is to be done, and I will do it if I can.—Queen Victoria. * * * * OUGHT AND CAN When God has told you what-you ought to do, He has already told you what you can.—W. S. Landor, , •.».-# • THE IGNORANT MAN Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. He that knows nothing thinks he can teach others what lie just now has learned himself.—La Bruyero." * * * » REFINEMENT AND BEAUTY Refinement creates '■ beauty everywhere; it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.—Hazlitt. * » * « PUTTING THE WHOLE OF OUR STRENGTH IN WORK We should consider what we are keeping back our strength for, if wo are not putting the whole of it into our work. —Anon. » > > * * * * THE VIRTUES OF A SPORTSMAN To brag little, to show well, to crow gently, if in luck; to pay up, to own up, and £o shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sportsman.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. » * * * THE PLEAiSURE OF GIVING . PLEASURE A very few experiments will soon convince, us that there are few-pleasures in the world so reasonable and so cheap as the pleasure of giving pleasure.—A. C. Benson. * * * * GOD'S GIFT FOR MANKIND No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him He gives him for mankind.—Phillips Brooks. .' .* ' ■*. * ', *•.M " ™ THE MEMORY OF A PEOPLE The memory of a people commences, as it also finishes, with its' literature. Whon. a people no longer knows how to sing, to write, or to speak, it ceases to exist. —Lamartine. * * * # FAILURE What is failure? It's only a spur To a man who receives it aright, And makes the spirit within him stir To go in once more and fight. —Anon. ■#-* # ' * PLAYING YOUR PART Play your part in life. The scene is perhaps strange, the lines perhaps hard to grasp,, the atmosphere unsympathetic —but with courage it can be played superbly. And never forget that if you make a slip, you may let the other 'players down. —Anon. ONE MOTHER I have discovered a thing very httlo known,, which is that in one's whole life one can never have more than one mother. You may think this obvioiis.. You are a green gosling! I was at the same age, (very near) as wise as you and yet I never discovered this with lull conviction till it. was too late.—Gray. * * # * THE DIVINE PLAN My life is but a weaving, between my' God and me. I may but choose the colours, He workoth steadily. Full oft He woaveth sorrow, and t in- ., foolish pride Forget He sees the upper, and I the under side.—Anon. PROVERBS ABOUT IDLENESS He that does nothing finds helpers. By doing nothing we learn to do ill. A pound of idleness weighs tweiity ounces. Idle dogs worry sheep. Idleness is the key of beggary. No man should live in the world that has nothing to- do in it. The tongue of idle persons is never. idle. , ~ He that doth nothing doth ever amiss.