THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18615, 17 November 1928, Page 11

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

THE HIGHEST HEARTS. It is the temper of the highest hearts to strive most upwards when they’ are most burdened.—Sir Philip Sidney. SELF-EXPENDITURE. There is no self-expenditure without self-enrichment, no self-enrichmeni without self-expenditure.—Dean Inge. SELF-DENIAL AND SACRIFICE. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves. —Cardinal Newman. * ALWAYS SUNSHINE SOMEWHERE. There is always sunshine, only we must do our part. We must move into it.-—C. L. Burnham. X s K COURAGE IN SORROW. How often, in the greatest sorrow, the greatest courage is bom and the greatest triumph achieved.—Major P. Si. Stewart. X X K MAN’S OWN MAKING. Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.—Addison. X X X SOWING AT THE RIGHT TIME. The seed sown on the right day will come up at the right moment. —W. W. How. THE DUTY OF OBEDIENCE. Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.—Archbishop Manning. sc THE WORLD. This is a good world: it’s your*/May Edginton. XXX TRUE VALOUR. True valour is like honesty, it enters into all that a man sees and does. —J. Billings. XXX A MAN’S ERRORS AND VIRTUES. No man should be judged by his defects. The great virtues a man has are his especially; his errors are the common weakness of humanity’, and should never be counted in estimating hi 3 character.—Vivekananda. WAKING*AND SLEEPING. God gives His angels charge of those who sleep, but He Himself watches with those who wake.—H. E. Hamilton King. THE DUTY OF HAPPINESS. The world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness, as well as the Happiness of Duty.—Lord Avebury. OURSELVES. It has been said that there are two “ selves ” —the self we think we are and the real self. Is there not a third self, greater than either, the self we may become?—Dr Elizabeth Sloane Chesser. NEW THOUGHTS. We lose vigour through thinking continually the same set of thoughts. New thought is new life.—Anon. THE ORIGIN OF GREAT MOVEMENTS. Probably’ every great national movement can be traced in the last instance to the magnetism, the zeal, the energy of one individual.—Beckles Willson. X X y THE GROWTH OF EVIL. An evil at its birth is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by endui> ance. —Cicero. X X X THE WORST CALAMITY. The worst calamity which could befall any human being would be to have his own way from his cradle to his grave.—Kingsley. mum THE INFLUENCE OF THE MIND. Let thy mind’s sweetness have its J operation upon thy body, clothes and J habitation.—George Herbert.