THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

HEART AND HAND. A sinful heart makes feeble hand.— Scott. WHAT MUSIC IS. Music is love in search for a word.— Lamer. BLESSED SLEEP! He that sleeps feels not the tooth- ■ ache.—Shakespeare. « TO KNOW TRUTH. To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.—Novalis. OUR BODY AND OUR SOUL. He who sets too high a price upon his body will sell his soul cheap.—John Donne. x x LEARN FROM EVERYONE. I have never met a man from whom there is nothing to be learned.—A. de Vigny. PLEASURE IN PAIN. There is no pleasure like the pain Of being loved and loving.—Praed. MAN AND THE ANIMAL WORLD. The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to each other, bear a constant relationship.— Herbert Spencer. TO-DAY IS THE BEST OF ALL DAYS. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday. —Emerson. THE MOTHER’S’VIRTUES. I think it must be somewhere written that the virtues of the mothers shall occasionally be visited on the children as well as the sins of the fathers.— Charles Dickens. FALSE TO DUTY. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.—Henry Ward Beecher. DULL INTELLIGENCE. To me. dull intelligence is as bad, and as dangeroxis, as entertaining vulgarit}'. —Channing Pollock. SALVATION NEEDED. I am quite as convinced as ever that people need salvation. It is my notion that, they want it, and that life, without it seems rather dull.—Charles M. Wood. A SOLID IDEAL. Every ideal has to be built up on the rock-bottom foundation of commonsense.—Richard King. LIVELINESS* AND AGREEABLENESS IN MAN. A lively and agreeable mart has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.—Greville. YOURSELF YOUR ENEMY. Be independent and moderate, and regard not t.he opinion or censure of others, but, keep a watch upon yourself as your own most dangerus enemy. . . . Never relax efforts, but aim at perfection.—Epictetus. ; DESIRE GOOD. | By desiring what is perfectly good , wc are part of the. power against evil, widening the skirts of fight, and mak-

ing the struggle with darkness narrower.—George Eliot. t* HEAVEN KNOWS BEST. It is seldom we are exactly blessed with the precise fulfilment of our wishes as the moment when we utter them, perhaps because Heaven wisely withholds what, if granted, would be oftien received with ingratitude.—Sir Walter Scott. KEEPING’IT ’i)ARK. Some men want to have religion like a dark lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where nobody but themselves can get any good from it.—Henry Ward Beecher. SHAME IN RIDICULE. Perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds so keen a sense of shame and remorse, as a modest, sensitive, and inexperienced youth feels from the consciousness of having neglected etiquette or excited ridicule. —Sir Walter Scott. AUTUMN. Touched with the dewy sadness of the time. To think how the sweet months had spent their prime. —Flood. FAME. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.—Emerson. SINCERITY. I should say sincerit} r , a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first, characteristic of all men in any way heroic*. Not the sincerity that calls itself sincere, ah, no! that is a very poor matter indeed :a shallow, braggart, conscious insincerity; often self-conceit mainly. The Great Man’s sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of. —Thomas Carlyle.

TO-DAY. Learn to make the most of life, lose no happy day, Time will never give thee back chances swept away. Work while yet the daylight shines, man of strength and will; Never does the streamlet "tide useless by the mill; Wait not till to-morrow’s sun lieams upon thy way. All that thou canst call thine own lies in thy “ to-day." Power and intellect and health may not always last; The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. x —Sarah Doudney. IF YOU WOULD BE SUPERIOR. The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.—Confucius. FEW ARE OUR PLEASURES. It is sad to think how few our pleasures really are, and for which we risk eternal good - Bailey. ’’pride.’*’ The. devil’s stratagem, who. like an expert, wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw.— South. ERROR'S WORST QUALITIES. The worst quality in error is not its falseness, but «tr- wilfulness, blind liens and passion.—Joubert,. _