THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 13 June 1942, Page 6

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

HOLD YOUR OWN j Hold your own, or someone else I will. Lord A vebu ry. SPECIAL PROVIDENCES As for special providences, person- ; ally I never pray for a fair wind for my hospital steamer, which might mean a head wind for the schooners.: —Dr. Grenfell, of Labrador. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW Those who have never shivered in j shadow do not know the full enjoy- , ment of basking in sunshine.- j Richard Kearton. AN ANSWER TO PRAYER Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.—George Meredith. LIVING IN VAIN Whilst I yet live, let me not live in vain.—Addison. RELIGION ENDURES FOR EVER Religion will outlive all forms of Government and all schemes to kill it. —Senator Huey Long. GOOD AND EVIL Evil often stops short at itself and dies with the doer of it, but good never.—Dickens. THE DIFFERENCE LIES IN THE EYES Tiie difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is great difference in the beholders.— Emerson. THEY WIIO ALWAYS LABOUR They who always labour can have no true judgment.—Burke. KING OF SPACE I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.—Shakespeare. JUDGMENT Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity and thou wilt judge ethers with a judgment of charity.—Mason. SUCCESS AFTER FAILURE Success is slippery standing ground, save for those whose feet have been roughened by the thorns of failure— Anon. PRIDE AND RESENTMENT There are no obstructions more fatal to fortune than pride and resentment.—Oliver Goldsmith. A SECRET The tiniest hole in a secret is like the tiniest hole in the bottom of the biggest tank—very soon it’s all out. —E. R. Punshon. SHARE YOUR HAPPINESS Happiness has this advantage over money—that you can share it and accumulate it at the same time.—Anon. MIGHTY THOUGHTS Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand. —Sophocles. MAKING A FRIEND It is a good and safe plan to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never forgetting a service, speaking a true word, or making a friend. —Anon. THOUGHT, WISH. ENDEAVOUR Every hour is worth at least one good thought, a good wish, a good endeavour.—Clarendon. GOD IN A CRISIS We use God like the fire brigade, and only call Him in in a crisis.—A. J. Russel. THE JOURNEY OF LIFE He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail!—Shakespeare. HATE IS A WASTE OF TIME Things done in hate have to be don e over again.—Anon. GENTLE PEACE Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. —Shakespeare. A FRESH VISION Life can begin at fifty—at sixty. It can begin the day before you die, if on that day you learn something that gives you a fresh vision of beauty and service.—Marie Dressier. ACCOMPLISH SMALL THINGS It is so much easier to think of doing big things than actually to accomplish small ones.—Rev. J. Maillard. MAN’S GREATNESS On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.—Sir William Hamilton. GENIUS Genius is talent set on fire by courage.—Henry van Dyke. WHERE MEN ARE MERRY ’Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.—Shakespeare. HOW KNOWLEDGE ADVANCES Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.—Macaulay Essays. THE DUTY OF BEING *HAPPY There is no duty we so much Lmderrate as the duty of being happy. —R. L. Stevenson.

TO CONQUER FATE They who wait no gifts from chance have conquered fate.—Matthew Arnold. NEVER TOO BAD TO MEND There’s no situation in life so bad that it can’t be mended.—Dickens. OTHER CHANCES People talk of a second chance, but God gives a second thousandth chance. You can’t go so wrong that He can’t give you a chance of getting right again.—Richmal Compton. UNDERSTANDING FROM ERROR As my error hath uttered my folly, so it hath procured me better understanding.—Robert Record. REAL JOY Real joy counts not from ease, not from riches, not from the applause of men, but from having done things that were worth while.—Sir Wilfred Grenfell. TEARS AND JOY How much better it is to weep at joy than to joy at weeping.—Shakespeare. IF LIFE’S ROAD IS HARD If life’s road is hard it means you’re getting somewhere; if it’s too easy you’re probably slipping downhill.— Anon.