Things Thoughtful

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 September 1945, Page 8

Things Thoughtful

PRECIOUS UTTERANCES Precious stones are not weighed by the pound, nor precious utterances by their length. —Anon. * FRIENDSHIP * Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. —Augustine Birrell. * # GENIUS Genius is ninety-nine per cent, perspiration (otherwise hard work) and one per cent inspiration.—Anon. * * * * TIME Time indeed is a sacred gift, each day is a little life. —Lubbock. * * * * AGELESS BEAUTY To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. —Shakespeare. s WHEN ROMANCE GOES If we let romance go, we change a sky for a ceiling. —Meredith. A LOVE OF CHANGE They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love variety and change. —Ruskin. 8 * * A LOVELY GIFT God has always been a Giver—the .. greatest of all Givers—and last of u all He gave a Baby! Could anything 3 be lovelier than that? —Anon. YOUTH g Youth is merely a condition—not i. an accomplishment. —A, Sutro. , CALMNESS IN ARGUMENT Be calm in arguing, for fierceness a makes error a fault and truth dis- - courtesy. —Herbert, r * -y; * * . DEEDS AND INTENTIONS The smallest good deed is better s than the grandest good intention. —Duquet. * TOLERANCE * e Tolerance means reverence for all * the possibilities of Truth. —John Morley. 'k "k "k -k d . LOVE AT THE CORE The hand of a child crumbles the temple of despair into dust. For the child tells of the love that is at the . core of all things. . —Dr. Norman Maclean. * #■ * * HAPPINESS AT HOME Make sure that those to whom you come nearest be the happier by your presence. —Walter Pater. * * * * WORRY Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. —Anon. DWELLING IN UNITY Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! —From Psalm cxxxiii KILLING A RESOLUTION We should always be kind to any attempt at amendment. An idle sneer or look ol incredulity has often been the death of many a good resolve. —Lytton. MOUNTAINS AND CITIES I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me, and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture. —Byron ¥ x * « PRUDENCE Prudence is an excellent virtue—but don’t confuse it with timidity. —Anon. GETTING OUT OF a'rUT If you do not like the rut you run in, there should be no circumstances big enough to keep you in that rut. j —Maurice Walsh. ¥■ X- * LOVE All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but Ministers of Light And feed his sacred flame. —Coleridge. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE Nothing is impossible to the man I who can will. —Emerson. THE GAME OF LIFE Theer's ups an’ theer’s downs i’ life an’ none ’ud deny it—but it’s a merry game enough, tak it all in all. —Halliwell Sutcliffe THINKING FOR ONESELF What men think out for themselves they never forget. ■ —-Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang. CONQUEST The conditions of conquest are easy—Toil, awhile. Endure awhile. Believe always. Never look back. —R. L. Stevenson. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN I see no reason to believe that the Kingdom of Heaven will take the form of a ‘’soft job” and those men and nations who act as though it were will unquestionably get the worse of it. —Dr. L. P. Jacks. TO BE HAPPY To be happy, a man must be like a well-broken willing horse, ready for anything. —General Goi-dou. A WORLD FOR ACTION This is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in. —Dickens LOOKING DOWNWARD ’Tis looking downward that makes one —Robert Browning. HELPING ONE ANOTHER Helping one another is the “Esperanto" of religion. —E. Wodburn. THE GOLDEN HOUR The golden hour is that in which resolution is translated into action, i MORAL INFLUENCES OF THE FINE ARTS \ I despair of having sufficient rea- i son to believe that the moral influence of the fine arts is verv grea* ' We know that there is an incongruity ' in vice, and a moral fitness in virtue i which the taste that a study of these , arts communicate can perceive ; but if this be the mere unaided percep- : tion of the understanding, it is alas! too frequently counteracted b’v the 1 impulses of the will: the rnclina- : tions are often so strong as to over- 1 power the dictates of the judgment ' The finely-tuned ear of a Byron, and 1 his cultivation of mind, did’ not ' counteract the immoral tendency of 1 his writings. May I. then, if I study the fine arts, study them only as a means to an end! —Rev. Joseph Sortaine.