THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 16 February 1935, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

INDIFFERENCE TO BEAUTY It is indifference to Beauty that be•reti' pessimism and despair. —H. A- . Sacliell. : , WORLD STRANGENESS In this world with starry dome, • Floored , with gemlike plains and ’ seasp. \ '' Shall I never feel at home, Never wholly he at ease? —William Watson. **# ’ * COURAGE Courage. ... It is when one is lowest on the wheel of fortune that the wheel turns round and raises us. —A. Dumas. ' * * * * FINISHING A TASK Anyone can do the first half of anything; only the people who do the second half arrive.—Anon. # # * * PRAYER What the key is to our watch, prayer is to our graces; it winds them up and spts them going.—Anon. * * * * KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM Lot us correct the irreverence of mere knowledge by ,the innate decency of wisdom. —Stanley Baldwin. • '* •, * THE POWER OF THE WILL “I can’t, does nothing; I’ll try, does something; but I will, works wonders!”—Alton. * # * * RICHES AND POVERTY There is that maketli himself rich, yet hath nothing; there is that maketli himself poor, yet hath great riches— Proverbs. * * * * HOPING IS NOT ENOUGH You cannot climb to the top by only hoping to get there. —Anon. I #■ * Tfr v , HAPPINESS Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises.— George Sand. ° • * * * * THE INEQUALITY OF LIFE MORE APPARENT THAN REAL , -Things are not half so unequal as some people' imagine them to be.— Anon. **. * * PATIENCE How poor are they that have not patience! What, wound did ever heal, but by degrees? # * * * ■ A SECRET OF LIFE All right use of ljfe and the one secret of life., is to pave ways for the firmer footing of those who succeed. — Meredith.

THE PURPOSE OF TRIALS Trials' teach us wliat we are, they dig up the soil and let us see what we Lire made of.—Spurgeon. NAMELESS ACTS OF KINDNESS That’ best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered . acts. Of kindness and of love.—Wordsworth. * * * * A CHINESE SAYING Mv eyes wander over the pictures of hills and seas. Jrt a single glance I survey the whole universe. He will never be happy, whom such pleasures fail to please! * # * * MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU CAN No man can do more than his best, hut many men can do more than they think their best. —Anon. * * * * THE DANGER POINT Never think yourself safe because you do your duty in ninety-nine points, it is the hundredth which is to be the ground of your trial. —Anon. *' * * * ADVICE TO THE YOUNG When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise mail say: Give crowns and pounds and guineas, But not your heart away. —A. E. Housman. *** s ' * ' HOISTING YOUR COLOURS To hoist your colours and go oil doing your jolt doesn’t require nearly as much courage as you may think; half the enemy’s threats are bluff. —Hugh Redwood. * * * .* , FRAILTY WITHIN US Alas! our. frailty is the cause, not we! For Such as we ,are; made of, such we ■i be—Shakespeare. * #;• * * CONTENTMENT Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it , were plate, arid 'not' less great is the man to whom all his plate is ho more than earthenware. — Seneco. ■ . .. * * ,* * . PERFECT. CHRISTIANITY AND PERFECT PATRIOTISM There can',be no .perfect! Christian who is not a perfect Patriot.—Cardinal Merrier. - * * WHAT SORROWS DO Courage! Even sorrows,, when once tljey 'aVe vanished, quicken the soul, as raiii the valley.—Salis. ' * • -• * *' * : GRUMBLING IS NO USE Grumbling only makes things worse, because it. makes vou worse.—Anon. • 14 .i ;;■!.* *• *: « •" • TRUE TO THE BEST IN YOU Men- caii only be' great when they are .true to the. best they have imagined!—Masefield. " ; U'iuwui •*- *..!• •t'S* -tu\ .*• . * a Proverb None preaches better'than the ant, arid she savs nothing.' *'* * * HAPPINESS IS” FOUND AT HOME Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in stranger’s gardens. —Anon. * # * * TRANSFORMING LIFE Live in that which should be, and you will transform that which is.— Murray. TAKE NO THOUGHT OF THE MORROW Do not lose the present in vain perplexities about the future. —Swift. * # * * THE RIGHT AND THE BEAUTIFUL Nothing in human life, least of all iiligion, is ever right until it is beautiful.—H. E. Fosdiek. # # * * WITH GOD EVERYTHING IS PERSONAL * Man makes botany; God 'makes the (lowers.. Man makes astronomy; God makes •• I lie 'stars. ' • '' Mail tna Ices theology; Cod sends Jehus. ~.. With God- everything isripcrsonfi),-ri-S. D.'Gordon.; . ’