THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 14 March 1936, Page 11

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES God helps those ivlio help themselves. —Anon. * * * * A MAN AND HIS NEEDS He that needs five thousand pounds to live Is full as poor as lie that needs but five. —Herbert. * * # • THE HOLY SHEPHERD He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arms, and carry them in His bosom. —lsaiah. * * * * SUDDEN STORMS Small showers last long, but sudden storms arc short.—Shakespeare. * * * * PAINT MUSIC Even to faint music a man may dance.—Frederick Niven. • * • * DOTNG ONE’S DUTY Try to do what you ought, and you will have no doubt what you ought to do. —Lord Avebury. * * * # NOBILITY OF SOUL Nobility of soul is not a question of genius or glory, or love; its secret is kindness. —Lacordaire. * * • « GREATEST MOMENTS The world lias had its greatest moments at the times of its greatest faith. —Susan Ertz. » * • • SLEEP ON GRIEVANCES Grievances, unlike bedclothes, should bo slept on before being aired. —Hugh Redwood. * * * * FORTUNE When Fortune means to men most good She looks upon them with a threatening eye.—Shakespeare. * * * * WHAT MAN HAS MADE OF MAN And much it grieved my heart to think ~ What Man has made of Man. —Wordsworth. • * • * WHEN PRAISE IS DUE Good tilings should be praised. —Shakespeare. • * * * WANT OF PERSPECTIVE We know nothing rightly, for want of perspective.—Emerson. PATIENCE THE TEST _ . It is patience wliich makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail.—Ruskin.

A WRONG ASSUMPTION If there is a more serious danger than rigidity in the face of changing circumstances, it is the assumption that any sort of change means progress —Prof. J. H. Jones. * * * } IN TiC DAY OF ADVERSITY If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.—Proverbs. • i # <• • FRIENDS LOST AND FOUND To wail friends lost Is not by much so wholesome profitable As to rejoice at friends but newly found. , —Shakespeare. • • * • TRUTH THE FIRST CASUALTY In every war truth is the first casualty. —Simpson. ENDEAVOUR MORE THAN SUCCESS Success is naught, endeavour’s all. —Browning. « ft « ft CONTENTMENT IS RICHES Poor and content is rich and rich enough.—Shakespeare. e * * * LET US ALONE Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last? All things are taken from us and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. —Tennyson. • # * * HOLD ON The best time to hold on is when you reach the point where the average fellow would fall off.—Anon. * # * * OUR DOUBLE NATURE Shall we not look into the laws Of life and death, and things that seem And things that be, and analyse Our double nature? • * * * UNCLOUDED TEMPER Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray ' Can make to-morrow cheerful as today. —Pope. • # * • DELAY Full many a day for ever is lost, by delaying its work till to-mororw; the minutes of sloth has often cost long years of bootless sorrow.—Elisa Cook. * * * * A PERSIAN SAYING Others planted that I should eat. I plant that others may eat. • • • • SCREW UP YOUR COURAGE Screw your courage to the stiekingplace, And we’ll not fail.—Shakespeare.

OUR TRUE CAPITAL No man can be too generous. What we give is our true capital. The only capital we take to the Other Side. —H. A. Vachell. a • • • THE FUN OF LIFE Trying to see something solid in the mist is the whole fun of life, and most of its poetrv. —John Buchan. • • # . * * UNFINISHED WORK Think nothing done while aught remains to do.—Samuel Rogers. • * # » COME WHAT MAY Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.—Shakespeare. • • * • SPARE MOMENTS Spare moments are the gold dust of time.—Cole. * * • » CURE AT THE BEGINNING Withstand the beginnings: for an after-remedy comes oft too late. —Thomas a Kempis. • * • • WHAT OTHERS THINK I lay it down as a fact that, if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.—Pascal.