THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 15

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

’ avoiding evil A resolution to avoid evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced , ! as to make avoidance impossible.— ! Thomas Hardy. NEW DELIGHTS New delights, , Spread round my steps like sunshine o'er green fields. —Wordsworth. VENGEANCE SOMETIMES BACKFIRES i Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.—Shakespeare. THE LOVE OF GOD For this is the love of God, that we . keep His commandments; and His com- j ; mandments are not grievous. St. John. J j THE CITY MAN’S RECREATION j i If the regular City man .. . can he j | said to have any recreation besides his j j dinner it is his garden.—Dickens. IMPATIENCE AND PATIENCE \ Impatience is the hare, patience is the tortoise. —Anon. WORK Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.— Sir J. A. Barrie. THE SEEKER IS REWARDED The dog that trots about finds a bone. —George Borrow. ONLY ONE SIDE OF A CASE He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that. —J. S. Mill. USING MONEY Use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone. —Herbert. THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS I have found out the true secret of happiness, Labour with independence. —Mme. d’Arblay. WHAT WE BELIEVE Men are most willing to believe what they most desire.—Bacon. WELCOME THE GIFTS OF TO-DAY Welcome and make ours Whate’er of good, though small, the present brings— Kind greetings, sunshine, songs of birds, and flowers.—Trench. SUNSHINE LEADS TO CHEERFULNESS , What joy and cheerfulness it wakes within us to see all nature beaming in brighter sunshine! —Dickens. FORGING AHEAD To forge ahead mettle is needed. —Anon. j LISTEN MORE THAN SPEAK I Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth. —Disraeli. LOVE OF ENGLAND I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea: Nor, England, did I know till then, What love I bore to thee. —Wordsworth. DELIGHT IN SIMPLE THINGS Teach us delight in simple things And mirth that has no bitter springs, Forgiveness free of evil done, And love to all men ’neath the sun. —Kipling.

A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. —Rev. 3, 12. THE GREATEST FAULT Since we all, the wisest of us, err, Sure it’s the greatest fault to be severe. —John Dyer. FEAR NOT Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee.—lsaiah. NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME Merely thyself, O man, thou canst not long abide, But must for less or greater presently decide. —Trench. BE CHEERFUL Therefore be cheer’d; let not your thoughts your prison be.—Shakespeare. MAKING A GARDEN Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: “Oh. how beautiful” and sitting in the shade.—Kipling. RIGHTS AND DUTIES Rights without duties make anarchy; duties without rights make slavery. Rights and duties indissolubly united one to another make liberty. —"La Rounat.” FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST Was Christ a man like us? Ah, let us see. If we, then, too. can be such a man as He. —M. Arnold. A HOUSEHOLD GOD Our God is a household God, as well 'as a heavenly one. He has an altar in every man’s dwelling.—Ruskin. STRENGTH TO CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE As thy days, so shall thy strength be. There is none like unto the God of Jeshrun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help.—Deut. , THE WISE AND STRONG MAN I The wise and strong man is often the architect of his own good fortune.— Tasso. READING Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.— Schopenhauer. GREAT MEN The great men of the earth are bul

1 marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. —Mazzini. A CHINESE PROVERB f The ox does the work, but the man eats the grain; One does the work, and another gets the gain. n TRUST IN GOD I look for the Lord; my soul doth wait for him; in his word is my trust.— Psalm. e BEING A FRIEND The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. —Henry D. Thoreau. lt TRUE PHILOSOPHY And philosophy doth consist in this, for a man to, preserve that spirit which , is within him, from all manner of contumelies and injuries ... all things I that happen unto him to embrace‘contentedly.—Marcus Aurelius. '