THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 July 1938, Page 12

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

SOLEMNITY, A DISEASE j Woe to the philosophers who cannot j laugh away their learned wrinkles! 1 look on solemnity as a disease. —Voltaire. GLADNESS OF HEART The gladness of the heart is the life of a And the joyfulness of man prolongeth his days.—Ecclesiasticus. CULTIVATING KINDNESS Getting money is not all a man’s : business; to cultivate kindness is a j valuable part of the business of life. —Dr. Johnson. THE FRUITS OF TOIL Surely long days of hardihood and toil Well wrought in man or woman are the soil The best fruit springs from. —Euripides. PROTESTS AGAINST ERROR A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.—Carlyle. A MAN IN HIS PLACE Not the place honours the man, but the man the place.—The Talmud. • TREASURES Riches that the world bestows, She can take and I can lose: But the treasures that are mine Lie afar beyond her line. —Watts. GIVING AND ACCEPTING He can accept who tastes as delicate a pleasure in receiving as his friend feels in giving.—La Bruyere. THE SWEET MONTH OF MAY The voice of one who goes before to make The paths of June move beautiful, is thine, sweet May. —Helen Hunt Jackson. SENSE AND WORTH Then let us pray that come it may, As some it will for a’ that, That sense and worthy o’er all the earth May bear the gree, and a’ that. —Robert Burns. HOW YOU BEAR YOUR HURTS It isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts, it’s only “How did you take it?” —E. V. Cooke. A MAN AND HIS THOUGHTS Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no; all he can do is to turn his thoughts to the best way. —Sir W. Temple. NO SUCCESS WITHOUT TROUBLE Without trouble nothing can be successful.—Sophocles. DOING SIMPLE THINGS Do whatsoever simple thing is your duty, and that conduct achieve more spiritual agency than the sage's oracle or the talisman found in the tombs of kings.—Stephen Hawker. A FREE AGENT Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less a free agent. —Marcus Aurelius. AN UNJUSTIFIABLE BELIEF Much of the unhappiness of life has its origin in the unjustifiable belief that life is easier for others than for oneself. —Sir Herbert Barker. THE FREEDOM OF ANGELS If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free—■ Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.—Lovelace. THE WORTH OF SPRING , Now spring has clad the grove in green, And strewed the lea wi’ flowers; The furrowed waving corn is seen Rejoice in fostering showers, i —Burns. A COMMON PROBLEM The common problem, yours, mine, everyone’s, 1 Is not to fancy what were fair in life - Provided it could be, but finding first What may be, then find how to make it ! fair : Up to our means—a very different 1 thing! —R. Browning. : * GOD CREATED ALL . . . What is there that we cannot • love; since all was created by God? —Carlyle.

ONE OPINION OF MUSIC Of all noises I think music the least disagreeable.—Dr. Johnson. TO-DAY’S JOBS Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.—B. Franklin. ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.—St. Paul. THE MAN WHO WANTS REVENGE A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.—Bacon. AN INDIAN PROVERB It is in vain to look for yesterday’s fish in the house of the otter. A TANGLED WEB O what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! —Sir Walter Scott. SMALL MINDS AND OPEN I MOUTHS The smaller the calibre of the mind . . . the greater the bore of a perpetually open mouth.—Holmes. GOOD OUT OF EVIL Oh, yet we trust that somewhat good Will be the final goal of ill. Tennyson. WORDS Words are wise men’s counters t they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.—Thomas Holmes. THE POWER OF A GLANCE ! There is a power in the direct glance J of a sincere human soul which does' more to dissipate prejudice and kindle charity than the most elaborate argu- ' ments. —George Eliot. SUCCESS IN LIVING A life will be successful or not ac- 1

cording as the power of accommodation is equal or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes.—Samuel Butler. PROCRASTINATION Procrastination is the thief of time. —Young. NEW TASKS AND DIFFICULTIES I must confess that I should not know what to do with blessed Eternity if it did not offer me new tasks and new difficulties to overcome.—Goethe.