THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 5 February 1944, Page 6

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

SUFFERING CREATES KINDNESS The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering there would have been less kindness. —Thackeray. A GOOD MAN The good man.is a friend to himself; by doing right, he will benefit himself and be a help to others. —Aristotle. A SCHOOL FOR MANNERS What better school for manners than the company of virtuous women?—David Hume. A SLIGHT MISTAKE Be not too rigidly censorious. A string may jar in the best master’s hand, And the most skilful archer miss his I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.—Roscommon. THE PROGRESS OF MAN The progress of man depends upon faithfulness, wisdom, chastity, intelligence, and action. He is ever degraded by ignorance, lack of faith, untruth, and selfishness.—Bata Ullah. VALUABLE EXPERIENCE In almost everything experience is more valuable than precept. —Quintillian. SELF CULTURE Every human being should have the means of self-culture, of progress in knowledge and virtue, of health, comfort and happiness.—Channing. THE BEST WE CAN DO God is pleased to vouchsafe the best that He can give, only to the best that we can do.—South. THE IGNORANT To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —Bronson Alcott. AN HONEST MAN A prince can mak’ a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a’ that: But an honest man’s aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa’ that! —Burns. TRUE FRIENDSHIP True friendship gives new life and animation to th e object it supports. •—Burton. BENEVOLENCE IN SMALL THINGS Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. —Macaulay. EMPLOYMENT IS DUTY Employment gives both appetite and digestion. Duty makes pleasure doubly sweet by contrast. —Haliburton. SOLITUDE NECESSARY No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker**his life with solitude. —De Quincey. CHEERFULNESS Cheerfulness is a friend to ,'raee, it puts the heart in tune to praise God.—T. Watson. HEAVEN IS LOVE Loves rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above, For love is heaven, and heaven is love.—Scott. A THINKING BEING 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. ETERNAL LIFE I am the Resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.—Words of Jesus. A REFUGE IN ADVERSITY As the harbour is the refuge of the ship from the tempest, so is friendship the refuge of man in adversity. —Demophilus." MOMENTS PAST AND PRESENT The moments past, if thou art wise, retrieve Wtyh pleasant memory of the bliss they gave: The present hours in pleasant mirth employ.—-Prior. WHEN THE SOUL IS* LOST What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain thp whole world, and lose his own soul? —St. Mark viii., 36. A MEASURE OF A MAN If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does it must be by what he gives.—South. LOSING A FRIEND We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan, and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. And that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing friend, by what name do we call him? Here every human language holds its peace in impotence.—Joseph Roux. SOLITUDE BUT NOT LONELINESS How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I mav whisper — solitude is sweet.— -Cowper. VIRTUE AND QUIETNESS With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.—Lao-Tsze, MIRTH AND GODLINESS Let not piety and godliness grow into terms of reproach, and distinguish between the Court and the City and the Country, and let not piety and godliness be measured by a morosity in manners, an effecta-

lion of gesture, a new mode of speaking . . . Very merry men have been very godly men, and, if a good conscience be a continual feast, there is no reason but men may be very merry at it.—Sir Edward Hyde. RECEIVING AND REPAYING Let not thine hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldest repay.—Eeclesiasticus. SERVICE OF LOVE There is no service like his who serves because he loves.—Sir Philip Sidney. SPIRIT OF BEAUTY Spirit of Beauty, that doth consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form. . . Thy light alone—like mist o’er moun. tains driven. . Gives grace and truth to life’s unquiet dream.—Shelley. AUTUMN All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreathed with nodding corn.—Burns. ASKING IN FAITH Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.—St. Matthew vii., 7.