THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 20 November 1937, Page 4

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

THE TRUTH The truth is always stronger than argument.—Sophocles. LUCKY TIME TO LIVE The good of ancient times let others state; I think it lucky I was bom so late—Sydney Smith. • • • • MEMORY AND REASON Memory will enable you to pursue a trail; only reason can give you the power of hewing out a fresh one.—W. Satchell. DESIRE AND DUTY Seldom is anything considerable achieved unless there is tension between desire and duty.—Kcyscrling. • * • • THOSE WHO N£VER IIAD A CHANCE 1 raise my glass to the silent horde, Spread o’er the world’s expanse. The unknown many who might have soared, But never had a chance.—Anon. • • f •

ALL MUST DIE All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. —Shakespeare. • • * * TO BE HAPPY IS TO BE GOOD Whatever makes men happier makes them better.—Goldsmith. • ft • • NATURE CANNOT BE CHANGED All the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan’s black legs to white.—Shakespeare. • • • • GENIUS Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience—ButTon. • • • * THE END OF LIFE The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.—T. 11. Huxley. • • • • LIFE IS SWEET There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet tilings. Life is very sweet, brother. —George Borrow.

MAKING OTHERS HAPPY Lots of people have the mistaken idea that they are here ... to make themselves very happy and everybody else very good. The truth is exactly the opposite . . . we have one to make good, many to make happy. —Father Stanton. • * • • WRINKLES, THE SIGN OF SMILES Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. —MarkTwain. • • • • NOT BY MIGHT OR POWER Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, said the Lord of hosts. —Zechariah. • • • • BE CONTENT AND THANKFUL God deliver us from pinching poverty; and grant, that having a competency, we may be content and thankful.—lzaak Walton.

WALK IN UPRIGHTNESS Strive to attain the true end of your being. Find to do good both a way and a will. Walk in uprightness before the Allseeing.—Henry H. Saunclcrson. * e m * SOWING SEEDS OF THOUGHT AND DEED Not rotting like a weed. But having sown some generous seed. Fruitful of further thought and deed. —Ecnnyson. » * * • PRAYER He who does all his praying on his knees does not pray enough.—Anon. * • • * THE FINAL GOAL Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill. —Tennyson, * • • • SERVING GOD BEST

God doth not need Either man’s work, or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best.—Milton. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT Fight tiie good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life.—St. Paul. • • • * LOVE GROWS Love does not spring up and grow great and become perfect all at once, but requires time and the nourishment of thoughts.—Dante. • • • * THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT AND RELIGION The revolutionary spirit teaches peoples their rights alone; the religious spirit teaches them their duties, too. —X. Aubryct. • e • •

IN THE HEART OR HEAD Tell me where is fancy bred, or in the heart, or in the head?—Shakespeare. • 9 • • REAL GOODNESS CANNOT BE RIDICULED I defy the wisest man in the worid to turn a truly good action into ridicule. —Henry Fielding. * * ® • EXTRACTING A FLAVOUR FROM LIFE A great art in life is the capacity to extract a flavour from something not obviously flavoured.—A. E. Coppard. • 9 9 9 THE BEAUTY OF NATURE There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before. To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal. —Byron. » * a * DWELLING IN SAFETY Whoso hearkeneth unto Me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. —’Proverbs.