THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 9

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

POLITICIANS AND STATESMEN A politician thinks of the next election. a statesmen of the next generation.-- .'•'•lies Clarke. • * • «* SWEETNESS IN EVERYTHING Sweet sighs and .sweet smells, a country walk, spring and autumn, follies and repentances, quarrels and reconciliations have all a sweetness by turns. You may extract honey from everything.—Clias. Lamb. * * * * CHEFRFULNESS AND USEFULNESS “There’s such a lot of cheerfulness in me that there wasn’t room for usefulness," .said the old man. “To he always cheerful is to lie very useful,” she said. —Eden Phillpotts. ft ft ft • THE OTHER SIDE Everything has another side, to it, like the moon.—G. K. Chesterton. ft ft ft ft THE RIGHT HABIT OF MIND The right habit of mind is surely that which lias the widest and most generous outlook, that looks for good in others, and seeks to serve, rather than outstrip. —Sir Hubert Parry. • » * * MAKING OTHERS HAPPY There is not any way so sure of making others happy as being so one’s self to begin with.—Sir Arthur Helps. ft' ft ft * A COMPROMISE Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible, •—Bertrand Russell. MERCY The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppoth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. —Shakespeare ft ft ft ft A CANADIAN SAVING The wheel of life is a grindstone. It is up to us whether we he ground or polished. ft ft ft ft AGAINST PROVIDENCE Let us not pull that upon ourselves all together at or.-n which Providence lias wisely ordered to be borne by parcels.—Matthew Henry. ft ft * ft ft NOTHING FORGOTTEN There is nothing, no, nothing, innocent or good, that dies, and i,s forgotten.—Dickens. MORE SAFEGUARDS THAN ONE A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope. —Epictetus. ft ft # * ACCEPT YOUR LIMITATIONS There is no talisman for peace of mind more potent than to accept your limitations cheerfully.—Canon R. J. Campbell. ft ft ft ft THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS Put in your heart the happiness of those you love in the place of that which you lack.—George Sand. • ft ft # REFRESHING SILENCE Silence is like sleep; it refreshes wisdom. —Bacon. * • » * EXPERIENCE Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man docs with what happens to him.—Aldous Huxley.

THINGS THAT ARE PRICELESS A generous mind knows that a number of flic very best tilings >1 the world do not piiy—for the simple repson that ihev are priceless., —Sir A. QuillerCoucli. STICK TO THE RIGHT . Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.—George Eliot. BEAUTY AND GOODNESS Beauty and goodness have a reality of their own, and without them life would liardlv he worth living. —Rev. .W. B. Selbie. * # # * A DIFFICULT AIM There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.—Logan Pearsall Smith. • * * * HIGH HOPES My hopes in heaven do dwell. —Shakespeare. * * * * MAKING THINGS PLEASANT If you cannot swallow the Bitter Pill for another, you can give him a Sweet to take the taste away. —Hugh Redwood. • * » ' A FAIRY TALE Every man’s life is a fairy-tale written by God’s fingers.—Hans Andersen. * # * * LESSONS LEARNT FROM SORROW Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them; For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them. —Webster. A SECRET OF SUCCESS Self-trust is the first secret of success. —Emerson. * * # * INFLUENCED BY THE PAST Our deeds still travel with us from afar And what we have been, makes us what we arc.—George Eliot. A DANISH PROVERB He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house. THE VITAMINS OF EDUCATION There arc three “vitamins” in education: how to study, the love of study, and the realisation that study by itself is not enough.—Sir Josiali Stamp. HOPE The natural flights of the human mind arc not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. —Samuel Johnson.

OPPORTUNITIES QUICKLY PASS. We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. —Shakespeare. MEMORY Passing sweet Arc the domains of tender memory. —Wordsworth. PLAYING THE FOOL People are never so near playing the fool as when- they think themselves wise.—-Lady Mary Wortlev Montagu. * * If * * » THERE MUST BE CLOUDS A cloudless sky could never produce a good harvest. —Jackson. FRIENDSHIP DOES NOT NEED CEREMONY Ceremony was but devised at first. To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown: But where there is true friendship, there needs none.—Shakespeare.