Things Thoughtful

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 9 June 1945, Page 8

Things Thoughtful

A RULE OF LIFE You make your rule of life, and your rule makes you. —St. Benedict. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ HARMLESS DELUSIONS I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us more happy. —Goldsmith, •f A COOL JUDGMENT One 000 l judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. —Woodrow Wilson. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ PATIENCE Patience is the courage of the conqueror ; it is the virtue, par excellence, of Man against Destiny.—Lytton ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ NOT TO TRY To. know that one has never really tried, that is the only death. —Marie Dressier. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ FEAR What is any fear, but faith in the wrong thing? —March Cost. * * * VC NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. —Shakespeare. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ RELIGION IN LIFE Religion is what a man does with his loneliness. —S. P. B. Mais. THE SYMPATHY OF A WOMAN It is the spirit of man that says “I will be great.” But it is the sympathy of woman that usually makes him so. —Disraeli. * ■’c * * PATIENCE AFTER HOPE When our hopes break, let our patience hold. Fuller. * * * * THE SOUL’S STRENGTH I count life just a bluff To try the soul’s strength on. —Robert Browning. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ RIGHT Right is a bigger word than either success or failure. —,C. S Tanner ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ A JUST QUARREL Thrice is he arm’d that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock’d up in steel, Whose conscience 'with injustice is corrupted. —Shakespeare. CHARACTER * Character is a slow-ripening fruit. The process cannot be hurried. There are no short cuts to the harvest. —Dr. James Reid. * * * * FAITH AND WORKS Faith without works is dead. —St. James. *** . * THE FINEST DISCIPLINE That aim in life is the highest which requires the finest discipline. , —Thoreau. * * * * CAUTION NEEDED He that cannot see well, let him go SOftly ' ¥ ¥ — Fr ahcis Bacon. FACE UNAVOIDABLE TROUBLES What cannot be avoided ’Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. —Shakespeare. # ¥ 9fe ■ 9f, THE PRICE OF LIBERTY Liberty can neither be got, nor kept, but by so much care, that mankind are. generally unwilling to give the price for it. —Lord Halifax. tflf "ft •fff •Jg DO GOOD UNTO ALL MEN As we have therefore opportunity, let us do unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of ¥ ¥ ¥ -^ tPaul - WHEN EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT We know only too well that there are times when everything goes wrong but in our haste to make the worst of life we are apt to forget that there are also times when everything goes ri kht- —j. b. Priestley. * * * _

TO FORGIVE MEANS TO FORGET To forgive and not to forget is like trying to go fifty-fifty with God. . . —Anon. * * * * THE FIRST TEMPLES The groves were God’s first temPIES - ¥ ¥ GOOD IN EVIL Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his hCad * * * —Shakespeare. happiness in "striving Most men are happier in striving man m possession. # —H. Seton Merriman. * * * * SHARING JOY All who joy would win Must share it—happiness was born a tWin - ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ B yr°n. FORTUNE ui F cu tUne , dot « us neither good nor ill. She only offereth us the seed and matter of it. —Montaigne. COWARDLY DOUBTS Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft mjght win, By fearing to attempt.—Shakespeare. A JAPANESE PROVERB Daylight will peep through a very small hole. J ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ FAITH ■ is putting your foot down in the mist and finding it on a rock. * * —Anon. A GRIEF SHARED IS HALVED .... The mind much sufferance doth o’erskip, When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship. DWELLING IN UNITY Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in. unity! —Psalms. ENJOYING THE PRESENT We are here to enjoy what is—not to yearn after what might be. y. —George Preedy. LOOK FOR THE OTHER MEANING strain is a word which means stress, but it is likewise a word which means song. —Dr John A. Hutton A DREAM A dream itself is but a shadow. —Shakespeare. FOLLOWING* AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. —Proverbs