THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 April 1934, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

LOVE OXE. LOVE ALL Ln'e one human being purely "ad v.armly, and you will love all. The heart in this heaven, like the wandering sun, sees nothing, from the dewdrop to the ocean, but a mirror which it warms and fills.—Kiehter. WELCOME GUESTS Good thoughts arc blessed guests and should he heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. —Spurgeon. DO YOUR BEST Let every man he occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is cii able, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best. --Sydney Smith. FALSE HAPPIXESS False happiness loves to he in a crowd, and to draw the eyes of the world upon her. She does not receive any satisfaction from the applause* which she gives herself, hut from the admiration which she raises in others. —Addison. LIKE LOVE Hair is at once the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us. like love. Tt is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea ol death, that, with a loci: of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature —may almost say, "1 have a piece of thee here, net unworthy of tliv being now." --Leigh Hunt. ALL CREATURES HAVE THEIR JOY Hark! how the birds do sing, And woods do ring; All creatures have their joy, and man hath his; Yet, if we rightly measure, .Man’s joy and pleasure Rather hereafter than in present is. —Herbert. * # * * TWO KINDS OF lIAPPIXESS False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. —Montesquieu. AS WE MAKE IT Life is what we make it. Our todays are the outcome of our yesterdays. We reap as we sow. From the same materials we build hovels or palaces. —Silas K. Hocking. FICKLE FORTUNE 0 heavens, what, some men do. While some men leave to do! How some men creep ill skittis’h fortune’s ball. While others play the idiots in her eyes! How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness ! —rShakcspea re. FROM SELFISHNESS TO BENEVOLENCE A man who emigrates from the low country of selfishness, where are perpetual chills and fevers, to the high lands of benevolence, goes from sickness and barrenness to the realm of health, and plenty, and joy, where his hand can almost pluck the fruits from the tree of life itself. —Henry Ward Beecher. * * # * TO-MORROW IS TO-MORROW — TAKE HEART Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in —forget them as soon as you can. To-morrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to he encumbered with your old nonsense.—Ralph Waldo Emerson. * -;f- # THE MAX OF LIFE UPRIGHT The man ~of life upright. Whose cheerful mind is free From weight of impious deeds And yoke of vanity; That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence, Nor vaults his guilt to shroud From thunder’s violence. —Thomas Campion. AX APPARITION OF A MAX Whosoever enjoys not this life, i count him lust an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh.—Sir Thomas Browne. NEVER THE SAME A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, And there comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again. —George MacDonald.

“f SHALL NOT LIVE IX VAIN” If J can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can case one life the aching, Or coo! one pain. Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. —Emily Dickenson. MAX AND HIS WORK Blessed is the man who lias found bis work. Let him seek no oilier blessedncs:,.—Carlyle. WORDS OE WISDOM There are all degrees of proficiency 'in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient to our present purpose to iudielate three. One class live to the utility of the symbol; esteeming health and wealth a filial good. Another class five .above this mark to the beauty of the symbol, as the poet, and the artist, and the naturalist, and the man of science. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol, to the beauty of the tiling signified—these are wise men. The first elatjs have common-sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.— Emerson. . * # # * BEAUTY OF JUSTICE The only true way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of justice, is bv showing to them in pretty plain terms the consequences of injustice. — f*s. Smith. CAPITAL AND LABOUR All capital is accumulated labour. Lord Stanley. A LITTLE WHILE ALONG THE WAY They are such dear, familiar feet that go Along the path with ours—feet last or slow. And trying to keep pace. If they mistake, Or tread upon some- flower that we would take Upon fun breast, or bruise some reed. Or (.; u.-'h poor hope until it bleed, We may he mute. | Not turning quickly to impute Crave fault, for they and we Have such a. little way to go. can be Together such a lit tin while along the way. We will be patient while we may. —(,'. Klingle.

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