THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 May 1943, Page 3

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

SUNSHINE AND HOPE Sunshine and hope are comrades. — L. E. Landon. ORIGINALITY What is originality? It is being one’s self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.—Emerson. OPTIMISM AND ACHIEVEMENT Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without Hope.—Helen Keller. A TESTING* TIME As gold is tried by fire. So the heart must be tried by pain. —Adelaide A. Proctor. REALISING THE VALUE OF THINGS We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered we can have no more.—Dr. Johnson. FAITH Faith is beyond argument or proof. You can’t find the soul of music by studying the piano wires.—Sir Philip Gibbs. GOOD FOR SOMETHING Everything in the world is good for something.—Dryden. LITTLE THINGS IN *LIFE Oh, the little things in this life that are the big ones all the time, and no one ever suspects them.—William de Morgan. THE DAY OF SALVATION Behold, now is the day of salvation. —St. Paul. MUSIC IS COMPANY Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once.—Browning. THE LAWS OF GOD I will meditate in Thy precepts and have respect unto Thy ways. I will delight myself in Thy statutes.—Psalm HONOUR A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master. —Malachi. NOBLE MINDS ’Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes: For who so firm that cannot be seduced? —Shakespeare BELIEF lh THE HEROIC To believe i» the heroic makes heroes. —Disraeli. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEARNING AND WISDOM Though a man may become learned by another’s learning, he can never be wise but by his own wisdom. —Montaigne. BE NOT SLOTHFUL

And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end. That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.—St. Paul. THE FAULT MATTERS MOST Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it. —Shakespeare. EARNESTNESS There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, sincere earnestness.—C. Dickens. * GREAT MEN * Great men are the guide-posts and landmarks in the State. —Edmund Burke. MARRIAGE AND FAILURE It is not marriage that faiLs: it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.—Harry Emerson. GENERAL NOTIONS General notions are generally wrong. —Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. WHEN DAY IS LOST The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. —Chamfort SELF-FORGETFULNESS | To help others one must have a long j training in self-forgetfulness.—Hugh Walpole. PATIENCE ! Let patience have her perfect work, i that ye may be perfect and entire, 1 wanting nothing.—St. James. THE CHEERFUL HEART Give me the heart that spreads its wings, Like the free bird that soars and sings, And sees the bright side of all things. —Eliza Cook. DEVOTION TO DUTY A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.—Thomas Carlyle. IMPROVING A THING It is not the man who said it first, but the one who said it best. If Shakespeare could improve oh a thing, he : did it. —Louis K. Auspacker.

TO BE GOOD j If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. —Epictetus. TO LIVE HONEStLy' For we trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly.—St. Paul. WHERE LOVE AND LOYALTY DWELL Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is Fairyland. —Charles Kingsley. * BRAVE SOULS* I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. —Catherine of Russia. KINDNESS We have a great deal more kindness than is every spoken.—Emerson. WHEN WE ARE YOUNG Most of us, as we grow older, forget how desperately important quite trivial things can be when we are young.— Bernard Walke. TRUTH AND BEAUTY O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.—Shakespeare. SPEAK NO EVIL Speak not evil of another, brethren. —St. James.