THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 May 1936, Page 11

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

LISTEN TO WISDOM Hear (lion, my sou, and lie wise, and guide thine heart in the way.— Proverbs. * # • * AN ARABIAN PROVERB Patience is the key of joy, but baste is the key of sorrow. TIME TO PUT THINGS RIGHT Cheer up —there’s all the future to try and put things right in.—Eden Phillpotts. | * * * • NOT PERFECTION ! When you say a thing “will have to do,” you may he sure it won't do.— Greville Macdonald. * * # * SPILT MILK » Cease to lament for that thou canst not help —Shakespeare. , < • • FAITH IX GOD It's not a big faith in a little God that you need but a little faith in a big God. —Anon. * * • * PLAYING ONE’S PART’ The world depends upon the minor parts being played well. —Anon. *'* * * OF ONE MIND 1 would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.—Shakespeare. **# * * YOUR VOICE God lias given you only one voice, but claims from you your music.— Rabindranath Tagore. * • « • INITIATIVE OVERCOMES FEAR Initiative has this great advantage—it conquers fear.—Anon. * * * • QUIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE In quietness and in confidence shall bo vour strength.—lsaiah. APRIL Well apparelled April on the heel Of limping “inter treads. —Shakespeare. » * • * OUR MISFORTUNES Most of our misfortunes arc more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. —C. C. Colton. * * * * A RETURN TO RELIGION A year which witnessed a widespread return to religion would he a year not lacking the best kind of happiness.— Anon. * # * • WHAT MEN DO 0, what men dare do! what men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!—Shakespeare. * • * • MODERATION Let your moderation be known unto all men.—St. Paul. * * * * AGAINST THE CURRENT Docs it matter to the strong swimmer if the waves beat against him?— Ernest Raymond. *“ * * * CONCEIT Conceit puffs a man up, never props him up.—Anon. * * * • FRIENDSHIP A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.— .Addison. * # » « FOLLY AND WISDOM Better be foolisli with all than wise by yourself.—George Herbert. * * * * OUR WILLS AND OUR BODIES Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.— Shakespeare. THE OIL OF LIFE The best lubricant for the wheels of life is a combination of kindness, love, humour and imagination.—Anon. * * * * GOD’S MERCY 0 give thanks unco the Lord for He is good: for His mercy endureth for ever.—l Chronicles. • • • • A GENIUS What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.—J. M. Barrie. * » • X GOD’S WILL Events will go as God likes.—General Gordon. * * * * STILL WATERS RUN DEEP Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.—Shakespeare. * * * #

GROWING IN WISDOM So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. —Psalms. • « * * ONE’S TRUE WORTH It is a great mistake to fancy oneself greater than one is, and to value .oneself at less than one is worth.— Goethe. » # * * TIME Time’s the king of men; He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.—Shakespeare. * * * * THE POWER TO ADMIRE 1 Be not ashamed to admire, for the • power to admire shows the faculty to 1 achieve.-—BesiTnt. : * # •» * 1 CRUELTY AND WEAKNESS ) All cruelty springs from weakness. —Seneca. ’ t * * * « THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD j Put on the whole armour of God, ; that ye may be able to stand against j the wiles of the devil.—St. Paul. t * * # # r

CHOICE, NOT CHANCE t You can depend on choice, but " chance is fickle.—Anon. * • « • BE JUST AND FEAR NOT Be just and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, ' Thy God’s, and truth’s.—Shakespeare. • • # • DEPTH OF PRIDE Deep is the sea, and deep is licll, but Pride mineth deeper; It is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul; If thou expose it in thy motives, and track it in thy springs of thought, Complacent in its own detection, it will seem indignant virtue; Smoothly it will gratulate thy skill, 0 subtle anatomist of self! And spurn at its very being, while it nestleth the deeper in thy bosom. —Tuppef.