THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 March 1933, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

LOUDER THAN WORDS Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. —James Russell Lowell. DO NOT BE STINGY Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more. —Wordsworth. AMBITION WORSE THAN SLAVERY The slave has only one master: the ambitious has of them as many as there arc persons useful to bis fortune. —La JJruyero. KEEP YOUR FRIENDSHIPS If a man does not make new acquaintances as lie passes through life be will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.—Dr. Johnson. MARRIAGE CURES! Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.—Ambrose Bierce. * * « » KEEPING UP APPEARANCES The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture.—Dr. Franklin. BENEFITS OF ASSOCIATION If men would permit their minds, like their children, to associate freely together—if they could agree to meet one another with smiles and frankness, instead of suspicion and defiance—the common stock of wisdom and happiness would he centupled. —Landor. MOTHER OF ARTS The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury.— Sehopenhaufer. “RUNNING DOWN” THE PRESENT There exists in human nature i strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.—Gibbon. PUt IN—DON’T TAKE OUT Life consists of what we put into it, not of what we find in it.—Sir Wilfred Grenfell. » « • • OUR ALL-IMPORTANT SELF We all tlijnk a great deal too much of ourselves. We all believe in our very iiisidest inside heart that things happen to us that happen to no one else.—Mrs Xesbit. LIFE'S BALANCE SHEET The measure of our energy is the measure of our potential success in living. Failure is due either to want of force or to waste of force. Life’s balance sheet cannot be falsified. How many of us can say that our accounts show no outlay against which we cannot set off an asset which ranks as worth the having.—Dr. Alex. Hill. THE APPROACHES OF AVARICE How sordid and foolish an employment it is to stand gazing at one’s money, to take pleasure in handling, weighing, and counting it over and over!. It is in this way that avarice makes its first approaches.—Montaigne. FEMALE BEAUTY What’s female beauty but an air divine, Thro’ which the mind’s all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between ; The body chains, because the soul is seen. Hence, men are often captives of a face, They know not why, of no peculiar grace: Some forms, tho’ bright, no mortal man can bear; Some, none resist, tho’ not exceeding fair.—Dr. E. Young. THE WEST WIND It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries; 1 never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills. And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils. —The Poet Laureate (John Masefield). • » * * BETTER, THAN GOOD To give and benefit one person is good, but to give and benefit many much better —as bearing a resemblance to the benefits of God, Who is the universal benefactor. —Dante. THE BETTER THING / A valiant cloubt is a diviner thing than a feeble belief. —Dr. L. P. Jacks. ONE OF THE SWEETEST SIGHTS Is not a young mother one of the sweetest sights which life shows us? —Thackeray. SHOULD NOT BE DATED Women and music should never be dated. —Goldsmith. GUARD THE TONGUE Ever have ail eve as to what and to whom you speak concerning any man —Horace. WHEN PERVERSITY IS PLEASED Perverse natures t find a positive gratification in doing wrong.—Horace Smith. * * • • HEROISM Ye gently wise, Ye noble few, who here unbending stand Beneath life’s pressure, yet bear up awhile; And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part deem'd evil, is no more; The shade of false applause will quickly pass, And one response to truth expressive all. —Thomson. HOSPITABLE WELCOME A noble troop of strangers Have left their barge, and hither make As great ambassadors from foreign princes. Good lord chamberlain, Go. give them welcome; you can speak . the French tongue; , . And pray receive them nobly, and conduct them Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him. You have now a broken banquet; lml we’ll mend it. A good digestion to you all; and once more 1 shower a welcome on you —welcome all! —Shakespeare.