THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 August 1928, Page 11

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

GOD’S SERVICE

God’s service hath sure wages.— Dutch Proverb. , * # * # BE HAPPY

When you are not miserable, Vie happy.—Carlyle. «■ «■ * »

MEN WHO SUCCEED

The men whom I have seen succeed have always been cheerftil and ’hopeful.—Charles Kingsley.

JOY IN' THE WORLD 'The world is wide, And holdeth many a joyous thing. —William Morris. « * # * .NOTHING BUT THE BEST There is no cultivating taste by means of what is secqnd-ratie. Nothing short of the best will avail.—Goethe. # * -* * KINDNESSES ENDURE Write injuries in the dust—kindnesses in marble. —Ancient .Philosopher. * ft ft ft MAKE YOUR DREAAIS COME TRUE Dream happy dreams and make them come true. —Lady Westmorland. ft ft ft ft THE NOBLEST POSSESSION Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.—S. Smiles. * # : » ft VALOUR Valour is the mean between the two extremes of a coward and a rash man. —Don Quixote. * * «- *• TO-DAY BETTER THAN TO-MORROW Tt'-day does better than half-a-dozen to -morrows. —Anon. • • * • ACTION NECESSARY We must he doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary to us than? thought.—Hazlitt. * * * * OPPORTUNITY t Opportunity is the flower of Time, which, if plucked too late, leaves in our hands the stalk of Regret.—Anon.

AIISSING AN OPPORTUNITY Tlris could but have happened once, And we missed it—Jost it for ever. —lt. Browning. • « a a USE YOUR OWN JUDGMENT There comes a time in every man's life when jiis own judgment is of greater use to him than other people’s.—H. V. Esmond. %* # # * A KEY AND A BOLT Let prayer be tho key of the morning, and the bolt •of the evening.— Matthew Henry. « .# * ® CULTIVATE KINDNESS Cultivate kindness. Getting money is not all a man’s business; to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. —Dr. Johnson. * * « • • TRUST, DO NOT WORRY If you trust you do ,not worry— If you worry you do not trust. —Anon. o • 4H o THE POWER OF A GREAT IDEA It is not so much achievement as purpose that matters. The power of a great idea is almost limitless, and has all the marks of . immortality.—Rev. Hugh Parry. * -x- » * THE '-LOVELINESS OF LIFE , There is another kind of beauty , . it’s the beauty that can’t endure disharmony iu conduct; the fine, true ear for the loveliness of life lived at its best. —Dorothy Canfield*.

* * * * A SMATTERING OF THINGS

Never be afraid of having a snmttoring of things. To have even pinholes to look through is better than being shut up behind a blank wall.—Amelie Rives. » * a ® COMFORT 1 Hold Thou my hands : \ In grief and joy,'in hope and fear, Lord,, let me feel that Thou are near, Hold* Thou my hands.—W, Canton. • • * * OURSELVES It lias been said that there are two “selves”—the self we think we are and the real self. Is there not a third self greater than either—the self we may become?—Dr. Elizabeth Sloane Chesser. o * © ® LIFE AND DEATH Soon, ends the day, and too soon we must fall as the rose, Die and be dust; but the blood that is warm in us knows Life hath abundance and bounty of bliss ere it close.—Arthur Maquarie. • # . © » THE PLAN-OF LIFE Our lives we cut on a curious plan, Shaping them as it were, for man; But God, with better heart than we, I Shapes them for Eternity.—Anon. « * # « , SPEECH AND STYLE . Style is the physiognomy of thought. Speech is the body of the mind. The choice of a subject is often the whole genius of a. man.—Lamartine. , * ■*'* * THE NIGHTINGALE The . Nightingale.—Lord! What musick hast Thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such musick on earth.—lzaak Walton.

e * o • ENCOURAGEMENT

Generous encouragement is the necessary mental nourishment of youth, and those who withhold it from them are not only foolish, but cruel. They are keeping food from the hungry.—J. St. Loe Strachey. »»'©«■

LIFE’S THREE Life is a story in volumes, three, , The past, the present,, the yet to.he,' The first is past and gone'away, The second,- we are living day by day. But the third, the last of volumes three, Is locked from sight, God bolds the key. —Anon. » * o w NOBLE WOMANHOOD

She never found fault with you, never implied Your wrong:by her right; and yet man at her side grew nobler, girls purer— None knelt at her feet, confessed lovers iu thrall, They knelt more to God than they used—that was all.—E. B. Browning. FRIENDLY RECOGNITION One friendly recognition, some passing ■words of kindness, Would break the Arctic circle that estrangeth class from class; Yet neighbour meeteth neighbour ungreeted year by year. And high and low, and all bctwceC them crystallise, apart.—M. Tupper.