THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17647, 21 September 1925, Page 11

THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

THE BALM OF WORK. I There’s nothing that’s, not bearabh so long as a man can work.—George t Eliot. SHOOT AT A STAR ! * ’ Fink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky { Shoots higher much than he that « j means a tree.--George Herbert. * I BEAUTY AND TRUTH. c Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is I h!1 ■j Ye know on earth, and all yc need to .. | know. c ! —Keats. :: :: RESOLUTION. All the soul Of man is resolution, which expires r Never from valiant men till their last breath.—Chapman. SMALL 'DUTIES. To take up the Cross of Christ is no great action dona, once for all; it 5 consists in the continual practice of 1 small duties which are distasteful to - us.—J. 11. Newman. :: :: j LOVE! Love, and do what ye will, for ye can i will nothing but what is just and good. “Love.” says the Sovereign Master, and 1 yc will fulfil perfectly the law.”— [ Lanlennais. AVHEX DIGNITY IS**A WEAPON. Against lies, calumnies, etc., dignity is the Only weapon. Never let anyone see that anything said by your enemies has touched you. In short, act as if you did not dream you had any enemics.—lbsen. "I-IFE JUST A *STUFF.” I count life just a stuff i To try the soul’s strength on, educe the i man. Who keeps one end in view, makes all things serve.—Robert Browning. THE pcavi'r OF LOVE. The heart that can love, that can learn sacrifice out of its love, and that can cherish, after a godly fashion, the memory of its love, though denied its fullest joy, has that developed within it which will lend brightness and joy to eternity.—Baldwin Brown. FORGET SELF. Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers; “There i-s joy iti self-forgetful-ness.’ So T try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun. the music in others’ ears my symphony, the smile, on others’ lips my happiness.—Helen Keller. :: :: TIIE BLESSING OF A KEEN CONSCIENCE. Neither rich furniture nor abundance of gold, nor a descent from an illusi trious family, nor greatness of authority, nor eloquence and all the charms ot speaking, ran produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt, kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes, that arc tvick- ; ed. —Plutarch. FREEDOM. Green thing to green thing in summer makes answer, and rose tree to rose; Lily by lily the year becomes perfect; and none of us knows ’ What thing is fairest of all things on earth as it. brightens and blows. This thing is fairest in all time of ail things, in all times is best —Freedom. Swinburne. WITH ALL ITS THORNS Hope is like a Harebell, trembling from its birth. Love is like a Rose, the joy of all the earth; Faith is like a Lily, lifted high and white. Love is like a lovely Rose, the world’s delight; Harebells and sweet Lilies show a thornless growth. But the Rose with all its thorns excels them both.—Rossetti. ON A SUMMER’S MORN. When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eye?. Out to the clear, boon-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the blackbird, cuckoo, thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day, Without a throat 'of tongue. _ W. IT. Davies. LIFE ISSWEET. O Summer sun, O moving trees! O cheerful human noise, O busy glittering street’ What hour shall Fate in all the future find, . Or what delights, ever to equal these: Only to taste the warmth, the light, the wind. Only to be alive, and feel that life is sweet.

- L. Bin yon. CHILD TRAINING. Many ebildrc.il grow up like plants under bell glasses. They are surrounded only by artificial and prepared influences. They are house-bred. roombred, nurse-bred, mother-bred—every- * thing but self-bred. The object of training is to teach the child to take care of himself: but many parents use their children only as a kind of spool, on which to reel off their own experi- , encc; and they are bound and corded J until they perish by inanity, or break ! all bonds and cords, and rush to ruin ; by reaction.—Henry Ward Beecher. BRAIN AND FORCE. It is ill with a nation when the cerebrum sucks the cerebellum dry; for it. cannot live by intellect alone. The i broad foreheads always carry the day | at last, but only when they arc based ; on, or buttressed with, massive hind- ! heads. It would be easier to make a ; people great in whom the animal is \ vigorous, than to keep one so after it has begun to spindle into over-intel-lectuality. The hands that have grasped dominion and held it have been large and hard; those from which it has slipped delicate and apt for the lyre and the pencil. Moreover, brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market.—-J. R. Lowell. ANTHjUIiV. The opinion which men entertain of antiquity is a very idle thing, a.ni almost incongruous to the world; for the old age and length of days of the world - should in reality be accounted atitiquitv, and ought to be attributed to our own times, not to the youth of the world j which it enjoyed among the ancients; , times, not to the youth of the world : which it enjoyed among the ancients; | for that age, though with respect to us I j it be ancient and greater, yet with | icgard to the world it was new anq j ; less.—Bacon. j j BOLDN ESS BETTER THAN j NIBBLING. ; lie who, when called upon to speak : a disagrees bie truth, tells it boldly I ! and lias done, is both bolder and xrnldi cr than ho who nibbles in a. low voice i .md never ceases nibbling,—Lavatci. TIIE POWER OF THE CONTEMPTIBLE. With every exertion the best of men j ian do but a moderate amount of ! good: but it seems in the power ot the most contemptible individual lo .1 i it; j *. .dfulable mil-chief. Washing! -u I- j