THINGS TJOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 June 1936, Page 10

THINGS TJOUGHTFUL

WHEN THINGS ARE UNPLEASANT Because things arc unpleasant, that is no reason to be unjust to God.— Victor Hugo.

A SPANISH PROVERB Be careful what you look for, for you may find it.

THE DANGER OF INSINCERITY Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. 5 roude. A BRAVE MAN A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving him.—Alexander Pope. THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day! Ye find it. not in luxury nor in gold, Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway For which, O willing slaves tp-iCustom old, Severe tqskmistress! ye your hearts have sold.—Percy Bysshe Shelley. v ■* * * TO-DAY ONLY IS YOURS To-morrow is not yours, and it is yet uncertain whether it ever will be. To-day is the only time which you can with the least shadow of propriety call vour own.— Edward Payson. " * * * * A PRAYER Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. —Pope. FAITH TO DO OUR DUTY Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.—Abraham Lincoln. * * * *

CHEERFULNESS IN WISDOM The most manifest wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.— Montaigne.

SIMPLICITY AND GREATNESS Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.—Emerson.

KEEP CONSCIENCE ALIVE Labour to keep alive in your breas' that little spark of celestial fire . . . conscience—George Washington.

ORDER GOVERNS THE WORLD Method is good in all things. Order governs the world. The devil is the author cf confusion. —Jonathan Swift.

THOUGHTS SHOULD BE FREE Therefore be cheer’d: Make not your

thoughts your prison.—Shakespeare.

KIND THOUGHTS AND KIND WORDS If your thoughts are kind, train your tongue to utter them. —Anon.

EXPERIENCE AND COMMON SENSE Experience joined with common sense To mortals is a providence. —Matthew Green. * # * * COMMONPLACES It’s deadly commonplace, but, after all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. —R. L. Stevenson, » ft •* •» HAVE A WIDE VISION It is difficult to be happy without a horizon. —Callisthenes. GOOD PURPOSES Good purposes should be the directors of good actions, not the apology for bad.—Anon. # * * * ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE The wise man enjoys his little—while the fool seeks more. —Dr. Cronin.. # * «> * RELIGION SHOULD BE JOYFUL If our religion makes us gloomy, we may have dyspepsia, but we have not got- religion.—Rev. P. B. Clayton. DISCIPLINE Throw away thy rod. Throw away thy wrath; O my God, Take the gentle path. —George Herbert.

A HAPPY LIFE IN THE COUNTRY This our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.—Shakespeare. KIND-HEARTED PEOPLE How many kind-hearted people there are with whom he never before had or ever again will have any further communication who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.—Charles Darwin. * * * * THE TRUEST SERVICE The truest and surest way in which we can serve our fellowmen is not so much to do anything for them as to be the very truest, purest, noblest beings we know how.—Frances Power Cobbe. * # * * TO SETTLE A QUARREL A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. —Seneca. * * * * LOVE IS NEVER LOST Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.—The Gideon. * # • • TRAVEL Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, gocth to school, and not to travel. —Bacon. TWO WORLDS There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our ' hearts and imaginations.—Leigh Hunt. * # * * AN AMERICAN SAYING Sitting still and wishing Don’t make no country great. The good Lord sends the fishing, Bui you must dig the bait. RELIGION NEEDS PRAYER Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere. —James Martineau. * * * W TIME AND LIFE Dost thou love life? Then do not sounder time, for that .is the stuff that life is made of. —Bejamin Franklin.