THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 12

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

WHAT CHARACTER IS Character is simply the solidifying of line emotion. —George Clarke Peck. WISDOM—UNDERSTANDING Through wisdom is an house buildcd; and by understanding it is cstaolished. —Proverbs. *-* * * THE MEMORY OF PAST FOLLY The strongest plume in wisdom’s pinion is the memory of past foliy. Anon. * # * • THE ONLY FREE GIFTS Love and Heaven Are the only gifts not bartered, They alone are freely given. —A. A. Procter. * * # * LOVE UNITES Love links souls together still, though some have passed beyond the veil, and some are still in the days oL' their pilgrimage. —Father Andrew. * * » * NOT GIVING IN I have never seen the good of giving in; if you don’t give in, something always happens.—Joseph Chamberlain. • ♦ » ♦ PERSEVERANCE Perseverance . . . Keeps honour bright; to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. —Shakespeare. *• * « • THE REWARD OF COURAGE Everything clears if we have courage.—Muriel Hine. * * * * NO DIFFICULTIES ARE OURS ALONE Whatever your difficulties may be, they are not peculiar to you.—Anon. * # # * A BLESSING The elements be kind to thee and make Thy spirits all of comfort! —Shakespeare. # * * * WORDS NEED WEIGHING For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful indeed what we say.— Confucius. * t * * PRAYER BEFORE IMAGINATION You must pray, and not follow the imaginations of your own heart.— Shakespeare. * * * # LESS THOUGHT OF SELF I suppose one is less afraid of life when one begins to think less of oneself.—Warwick Deeping. * * * * JOY AND SORROW Joy may be a miser; but sorrow's purse is free.—R. li. Stoddard. * * * • GOD IS ALWAYS RIGHT My concern is not whether God is on our side: but my great concern is to be on God's side. For God is always right.—Lincoln. * * * # WASTING TIME Probably most of us waste more time in our activities than our idleness.—Anon. * # * * FACING A FEAR No fear can bear to be looked straight in the face.—Anon. * * * • FOOLISH INDISCRETION A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. —Proverbs. * * « * MAKING THE BEST OF TO-DAY Make the best of to-day in face of a problematic to-morrow and never vex yourself about yesterday.—Anon. 9 * j * ■» CHEERFULNESS IN THE SOUL Be careful not to thrive by the meats in your stomach, but by cheerfulness in the soul. —Epictetus. « * * * EVERY ATTEMPT WELL MADE Attempt nothing or do it thoroughly.—The late Lord Reading. * * • * • TIME IS ALWAYS GOING ON Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. —Shakespeare. * * * # KIND WORDS You can never be too hard up to spare a kind word.—Anon. 9 * * TRIUMPH AFTER ACHIEVEMENT One reason we admire a hen is because she doesn’t cackle over what she is going to do, but over what she has done.—Anon. * * * * ENTERPRISE An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.—Frederic Marvin. # # # • A GREAT DEED The sun, the moon, the stars, Send no such light upon the ways of men As one great deed.—Tiresias. * * * * PARENTS AND SONS A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.—Proverbs.

AN ERROR An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.— IngersolL * * # * EXCUSING A FAULT And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.—Shakespeare. * * # « HAPPINESS AND THE PESSIMIST Happiness just whistles past the pessimist.—Anon. * * * * SIMPLICITY Simplicity is the soul of truth.— Boerhaave’s Motto.

THE ATTEMPT IS WORTH MORE THAN SUCCESS It is a greater thing to try without succeeding, than to succeed without trying,—Anon.

GOD THE GREAT GIVER God, the great giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.—Tagore.

WHEN A MISTAKE IS MADE When a man • makes a mistake, nature leaves him to find out why his ears are boxed. —Huxley. 0 tt ft © FORCE AND FRAUD Force and fraud arc in war the two cardinal virtues. —Hobbes. * * * WHAT REALLY MATTERS It is not what happens to me that really matters, but how I behave while it is happening.—Father Andrew.