THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 6

THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

KING INTELLECT, The com ma.iid.ing intellect should have the command, and be king.— Schiller. FAN'S OR*EXTINGUISHES. Absence is to love what wind is to fire: it puts out the little, it kindles the great. —Bussy. (:ALAMITY*OF* PLACID CONTENTMENT. The greatest of all calamities is the contentment that sits down at peace with a remediable evil.—William Smith. OCR XEAR- AT- IfAND TASKS. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. —Carlyle. GOOD USE*OF MONEY. By doing good with his money, a man. as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current: for the merchandise of heaven. —Rutledge. J WIIAT SAY BACHELORS? Marriage is the best state for a m.n: in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.—Dr Johnson. TO-DAY’S THE DAY. Every man’s life lies within the present: for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain--Antonins. lIEED OXLy'tIIE PASSING HOUR. I am not careful for what may be a hundred years hence. He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead My part is to improve the present rr. >- ment. —John Wesley. ONE. * # One small cloud can hide, the sunlight; Loose one string, the pearls are scat- ! tered; Think one thought, a soul may perish, Say one word, a heart may break. Adelaide A. Proctor. j FEW CAN STAND PROSPERITY. Adversity is hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred who will stand ad versitv.-t— Carlyle. CHANCE. Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases which lie does not choose to subscribe openly with His own sign-manual.—Coleridge.