Things Thoughtful

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 7 December 1940, Page 10

Things Thoughtful

PRECIOUS UTTERANCES 1 Precious stones are not weighed by i the poupd. nor precious utterances by their length.—4non- * * * * FRIENDSHIP | Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.—Augustine Birrell. * * * * GENIUS Genius is ninety-nine per cent, perspiration (otherwise hard work) and one per cent, inspiration.—Anon. * * * * TIME Time indeed is a sacred gift, each day is a little life.—Lubbock. * # * * AGELESS BEAUTY To mfe, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. —Shakespeare. WHEN ROMANCE GOES If we let romance go. we change a sky for a ceiling.—Meredith. A LOVE OF CHANGE They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love variety and change.—Ruskin. * A * God has always been a Giver—the greatest of all Givers —and last of all He gave a Baby! Could anything be lovelier than that?—Anon. * * * * YOUTH Youth is merely a condition —not an accomplishment.—A. Sutro. CALMNESS IN ARGUMENT Be calm in arguing, for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.—Herbert. DEEDS AND INTENTIONS The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.—Duquet. * * * * TOLERANCE Tolerance means reverence for all the possibilities of Truth.—John Morley. LOVE AT THE COrlc The hand of a child crumbles the temple of despair into dust. For the child tells of the love that is at the core of all things. —Dr. Norman Maclean. Sf, ff. HAPPINESS AT HOME Make sure that those to whom you come nearest be the happier by your presence.—Walter Pater. * * * * WORRY Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.—Anon. DWELLING IN UNITY Behold, how good and how pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity.!—From Psalm cxxxiii. RESOLUTION We should always be kind to any attempt at amendment. An idle sneer or look of incredulity has often been the death of many a good resolve. —Lyttoii. MOUNTAINS AND CITIES I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me, and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture. —Byron. * * * * PRUDENCE Prudence is an excellent virtue—but don’t confuse it with timidity.—Anon. GETTING^OUT OF A RUT If you do not like the nit you run in, there should be no circumstances big enough to keep you in that rut. —Maurice Walsh. * * * * LOVE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but Ministers of Light And feed his sacred flame. —Coleridge. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE Nothing is impossible to the man who can will.—Emerson. THE GAME OF LIBF Theer’s ups an’ theer’s downs i’ life an’ none ’ud deny it —but it’s a merry game enough, tak’ it all in all. —Hall iwell Sutcliffe. * * * •k THINKING FOR ONESELF What men think out for themselves they never forget. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang. * * # * CONQUEST The conditions of conquest are easy— Toil awhile. Enquire awhile. Believe always. Never look back. —R. L. Stevenson. OF HEAVEN I see no reason to believe that the Kingdom of Heaven will take the form of a “soft job” . . . and those men and nations who act as though it were will unquestionably get the worst of it. —Dr. L. P. Jacks. * * * * TO BE HAPPY To be happy, a man must be like a well-broken horse, ready for anything. —General Gordon. A WORLD ACTION This is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in.—Dickens. LOOKING DOWNWARD ’Tis looking downward that makes one dizzy.—Robert Browning. HELPING ONE ANOTHER Helping one another is the “Esperanto” of religion.—E. Woburn. THE GOLDEN 1 HOUR The golden hour is that in which resolution is translated into action. moral Influence*of toe fine ARTS I despair of haying sufficient reason tc believe that the moral influence of the fine arts is very great. We know that there is an incongruity in vice, and a moral fitness in virtue, which the taste can perceive; but if this be the mere unaided perception of the understanding, it is, alas! too frequently counteracted by the impulse of the will; the inclinations are often so strong as to overpower the dictates of the judgment. Thr finely-tuned ear of a Byron, and his cultivation of mind, did not counteract the immoral tendency of his writings. May I, then, if I study the fine arts, study them only as a means to an end! —Rev. Joseph Sortaine.