Things Thoughtful

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 April 1945, Page 8

Things Thoughtful

A PRAYER Whether my affairs go right cr wrong, Grant me, O Lord, the grit to carry on. —Anon. HAPPINESS AND LOVE Happiness means love felt, but it remains incomplete unless it culminates in service, which means love expressed. —H. R. Genck. **' * * THESE FOUR If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experence your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. • —Addison. MORNING—IN SUMMER Morning in summer is soft Without melancholy, and brilliant without glare. —Foster. A GENTLEMAN • A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. —Hazlitt. * * * WORD AND DEED Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections; and such thy life as thy deeds. —Socrates. * * * * QUELLING A TUMULT As when in tumults rise th’ ignoble crowd, Mad are their motions, and their tongues are loud; And stones and brands in rattling volleys fly, And all the rustic arms that fury can supply: If, then, some grave and pious man appear, They hush their noise, and lend a list’ning ear: He soothes with sober words their angry mood, And quenches their innate desire of blood. —Virgil. THE RESULT OF KINDNESS The kindly word that falls to-day May bear its fruit to-morrow. —Mackay. TO ELIMINATE The best way to eliminate is to substitute. —Anon. * * * FAITH Faith is not asking God for bushels and setting out a pint measure to catch them in. —Leslie Moore. HOLD ON TO*TRUTH Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. —Proverbs. A PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER Give God time to answer your prayer. —-Anon. TRUTH IS WITHIN OURSELVES Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from out-ward things, whalte’er you may believe. Browning. ¥ V * sf. THE LADDER OF HOPE ’Tis better to climb the ladder of hope e’en though a rung may break, than sit at the bottom hugging despair. —Anon. * * k k WHERE LOVE IS Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. —Proverbs. k k k k THOSE THAT FEAR GOD Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. —Ecclesiastes. Sf. AS. Sf. X. FORGET THE PAST Forget the things that are behind and stretch forward. —Rev. Bede Jarrett. AMBITION IN MODERATION Ambition is, great stuff, but use your head. A grasshopper shouldn’t try to learn to be a kangaroo.—Anon. ONLY TIME TO BE GREAT Life is too short to be little. —Disraeli. * * AC * OLD AGE HAS ITS CHARMS No livery is so becoming as old age, and no lace as handsome as silver hair. -—Thackeray. * # # * MIND AND CONDUCT Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally those again: The mind and conduct mutually imprint And stamp their image in each other’s mint. —Cowper. iff iff RESIGNATION The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection—itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy. —lbid. INDIVIDUAL EFFORT Individual effort and free will are more useful things to believe in today than fate. —St. Dare. k k k k THE FIRST LESSON The first thing we’ve got to do is order to enjoy God’s tea-table of life is to learn to eat our crusts. —Rev. Edward Vernon. if> Sf. Zg, TRUTH LIVETH As for the truth, it endureth, and is always strong; it liveth and conquereth for evermore. —Esdras. « H- * VMAN AND MOTIVE It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man. —S. T. Coleridge. MAN’S BLESSINGS There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset. s \ —G. K. Chesterton. At « U. sf. ACTIVITY WITHOUT INSIGHT There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. —Goethe SURE OF PROVIDENCE We know nothing more of tomorrow than this, that providence will rise much earlier than the sun. / —Lacordaire. k k k * TO BE WHOLLY WRONG Men are never wholly wrong except in thinking they are wholly right. H. H. Kelly. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ WORDS OF WISDOM The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much g°°d. —Ecclesiastes.