THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

TALENT AND PERSEVERANCE With ordinary talent and extraordinary preseverance, all things arc attainable.—Sir T. F. Buxton. • * * * THE LAUGHTER OF LITTLE CHILDREN What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge, but just the laughter of little children and the friendship of friends.—John Richard Green. * * * * JUSTICE TRIUMPHS ULTIMATELY Though usurpers sway the rule awhile, Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.—Shakespeare. * * * » REALITY What is Reality? A fruit upon the tree of Truth.—R. Sabatini. • * * W EVERLASTING THOUGHTS The old thoughts never die, Immortal dreams Outlive their dreamers, and are ours for aye. No thought once form’d and uter’d can expire.—Mackay. WHEN GALES ARE WELCOME If calm means fog, then welcome the gale.—Anon. * * * * AN OLD SAYING St. Barthelmey’s mantle wipeth dry All the tears St. Swithin can cry. « * * * TRUE DIGNITY True dignity is never gained by place, Nor lost when honours are withdrawn. —Philip Massinger. • * # * TELLING YOUR TROUBLE When you’ve come through a bad lime, to tell of it takes the thorn out. —Mary Webb. « # * * HEARTS OF OAK Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men. We always are ready; Steady, boys, steady.—Garrick. SUFFERING FOR TRUTH Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood. —Danish Proverb. * * « * THE ROAD TO GOD Duty is the great mountain road to GocL—Jenkin Lloyd Jones. * * » * SELF-FORGETFULNESS The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love.—Auerbach. * * * * SELF-ASSERTION Those who show themselves off do not shine; Those who justify themselves are not convincing; Those who assert themselves do not endure. —The Taoist Classic, 500 B.C. * * # * A WISE TRAVELLER A wise traveller goeth on cheerily through fair weather and through foul ... he carries his sunshine with him. —M. Tupper. * * * « HONOUR AND LIFE Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done. —Shakespeare. • # * * THE ROYAL LAW If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.—St. James. * * * # THE SMILE OF PERFECT TRUST Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look When hearts are of each other sure. —John Keble. * * * * WHITHER ? Many are so busy shouting “Advance” that they have no breath to ask whither they are going.—H. Seten Merriman. * * # * ONWARD IN FAITH Onward in faith—and leave the rest to Heaven. —Robert Southey. • * * « THE END OF LIFE

The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. —Swift.

CONTRIBUTIONS OF CHEERFULNESS Let us try to forget our cares and our maladies, and contribute as we can to the cheerfulness of each other. —Dr. Johnson.

EVERLASTING KINDNESS With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.—lsaiah. *' # * *

AUTUMN Lo! sweetened with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing overmellow, , Drops in a silent autumn night. Choric Song. * * # * MIND STRONGER THAN FORTUNE Though fortune’s malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.—Shakespeare. * • * t SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.— St. Paul. • • t • THE RELENTLESS MINUTES' Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. —Shakespeare. * * * * DIVINE FAITH AND STRENGTH Divine faith is just that by which you do your task; when that task is done you will know that the Divine strength was there to enable you to do it.—Dr. R. J. Campbell. TRUTH The old faiths light their candles all about, But burly Truth comes by and puts them out. —L. W. Reese. * * • 4 FRIENDSHIP Friendship is the most worthy of human ties. A man loves his friend’s soul, and to do that he must have a soul himself. —Buffon. A PROFESSION OF FAITH Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.—Auriel. WONDERFUL. NATURE Literature is very ancient, but Nature is older far. Words are wonderful, but the life of things around you is more than words.—Robert P. Downes.