THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 April 1937, Page 22 (Supplement)

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

INNOCENCE To be innocent is nature’s wisdom. . —Coleridge. * * * * LITTLE KNOWLEDGE There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. Francis Bacon. * * * * HAPPINESS AND USEFULNESS Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness. — Tupper. * * * * THE ETERNAL GOD Thou. O Lord, remainest for ever;, Thy throne from generation to genera- j tion. —Lamentations. * * * * ** OPTIMISTS AND PESSIMISTS The shrewd business man employs optimists to get results and pessimists to figure them up.—G. H. Lorimer. * * * + TRIFLES ARE IMPORTANT Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. —Young. * * * * LOOKING FOR SMILES There is usually a smile in human affairs, if one takes the trouble to look for it.—H. Seton Merriman. ♦ * * * WELCOME THE PRESENT Welcome and make ours Whate'er of good, though small, the present brings— Kind greetings, sunshine, song of birds, and flowers. —Trench. # # * * A SINGLE COURSE OF ACTION Guide your life towards a single course of action, and if every action goes its due length, as far as may be, rest contented. —Marcus Aurelius. * * * # THE BUSY MAN The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot the flies come out. — Benjamin Franklin. * * * * NO INVISIBLE MEANS OF SUPPORT The real difficulty with too many , people is that they have no invisible . means of support.—T. L. Masson. * * * * , PATIENCE He that has patience may compass anything.—Reynolds. LOVERS’ TIME ; Lovers break not hours, , Unless it be to come before their time. —Shakespeare. , * * * * LITTLE IN ONESELF ; He is truly great that is great in charity . . . that is little in himself.—Thomas a Kempis. * * # * 1 IN THE MEMORIES OF OTHERS i All that we should strive to do is to leave the most beautiful souvenirs in the memories of others. —Henry Bordeaux. * # * * HEALTHY MIND AND BODY Keep a healthy mind in a healthy ■ body.—Cleobalus. * * * * OUR OWN TROUBLES If we all hung our troubles upon the wall, each man would have a good look at his neighbour’s and take back his own.—C. Caudwell. * * * * LOYALTY To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. —Henry Vaughan. * * * * THE END OF MAN The end of man is an action, not a thought, even though it were of the noblest. —Rossetti. * * »:< * INJURIES ARE ALWAYS REMEMBERED Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries—what worthy man does not keep those in mind. —Thackeray. JUDGMENT OF GOD ON THE NATIONS

And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up

a sword against Nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.— Micah. * * * * KNOWLEDGE AND JUDGMENT Knowledge is *ie treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man.—W. Penn. * * * * THE NEXT BIG THING A flower in a pot is not a garden,' but it is a flower for all that.—Robert Louis Stevenson. * if * # UNDERSTANDING The understanding enables to grasp great matters, honourable, even divine, and, therefore, is most blessed. —St. Augustine. * * * * FORTUNATE TO BE UNFORTUNATE There is no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been un- ! fortunate, for it has never been in his ! power to try himself. —Seneca. * * * * TO BE MODERN DOES NOT LAST Be modern, and befoi’e you can turn round find yourself old-fashioned. — Anon. *'* * * MINDLESS Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market-place.—Euripides. * * * * SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR In so contrary a world as this there jis always something to be thankful for. —E. Temple Thurston. IMAGINARY TROUBLES Human bodies are sic fools For a’ their college and schools. That when nae real ills perplex them They mak’ enow themsels to vex them. —Burns. * * * * GOD’S PROMISE Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, He will give it you.—St. John. SUITING TEMPER TO CIRCUMSTANCE He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent [who can suit his temper to any circumstances. —Hume. * * * * * VIGILANCE Have open eye, for thieves do foot by night.—Shakespeare. FALSE HOPES Miserable are those blind, unlutorca people who lean their hopes upon those things which Time as flleetly bears away.—Petrarch. WITHOUT IMAGINATION The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.—H. W. Beecher.