THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 27 (Supplement)

THINGS THOUGHTFUL.

e m m ® hi a m ® m m m in m m m m m in m ® BRILLIANCY AND DULLNESS. Brilliancy is delightful if tempered by an occasional dullness.—Countess Cave. THE WORK NEAREST AT HAND. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.—Thomas Carlyle. “LASSES” AFTER MAN! Her prentice han’ she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O! —Robert Burns. SELF-RELIANCE. There is a ladder in life which men call achievement. Its first rung is selfreliance.—Anon. THE SOUL QF WORK. Never sacrifice the soul of the work for its technique.—Florence Nightingale. DEATH A GENIUS. Death is a silent, peaceful genius, who rocks our second childhood to sleep in the cradle of the coffin.—Horace Smith. THE SATISFACTION OF WORK. After seeing a good deal of life, I still think the greatest satisfaction is work. I do not mean drudgery, but one’s own findings out. —Max Muller. MIND OVER BODY. Let thy mind’s sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes and habitation.—George Herbert. TRUTH AND TACT. As tact is to the outside, so truth, its twin sister, should exist within, that the two may vaork as one.—Anon. AN UNRELUCTANT SOUL. Let me live my life from year to year with forward face and unreluctant soul.—Archbishop Davidson. WHAT MAKES LIFE REAL. The things that make life real are qualitative, and elude all physical record and measurement—love, goodness, beauty, and even vitality.—Sir Josiah Stamp. AIM AND POWER. God sends the winds, we must prepare the sails. The aim comes first, the power follows.—Dr Sidney Berry. NO JOY WITHOUT DESIRE. Wants are the fountains of felicities; •no joy could ever be, were there no wants. —Traherne. TRIADS. Three things to admire—intellectual power, dignity, gracefulness. Three things to love—courage, gentleness, affection. Three things to hate—cruelty, arrogance, ingratitude. Three things to despise—meanness, affectation, envy. Three things to reverence—religion, justice, self-denial. Three things to delight in—beauty, frankness, freedom. Three things to wish for—faith, peace, purity of heart. Three things to esteem—wisdom, prudence, firmness. Three things to like—cordiality, good humour, mirthfulness. Three things to suspect—flattery, hypocrisy, sudden affection. Three things to avoid—idleness, loquacity, flippant jesting. Three things to cultivate—good books, good friends, good humour. Three things to contend for—honour, country, friends. Three things to govern—temper, impulse, the tongue. Three things to be prepared for—change, decay, death.

iinmhi @3 f*. i*i a®in®siis man> a ® ® @ DOUBT OF ONESELF. The deadliest doubt of all is the doubt of one’s own value.—Rev Arthur Pringle. TROUBLE AND TRIUMPH. Great trouble, if met by great trust, will lead to great triumph.—Rev Gra-ham-Scroggie. THE TRUE CALLING OF A CHRISTIAN. The true calling of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.—Dean Stanley. RELIGION IN A LAUGH. There is more religion in a laugh than in a groan.—Dr Talmage. A JAPANESE PROVERB. We can never see the sun rise by looking into the west. THE DANGERS OF HALF-TRUTHS. Beware of a half-truth. You may have got hold of the wrong half.—Anon. GREAT DEEDS LIVE FOR EVER. Howe’er you babble, great deeds cannot die; They with the sun and moon renew their light For ever, blessing those that look pn them.—Tennyson. WELCOME JOY AT ONCE. I’ll not confer with sorrow until tomorrow, but Joy shall have her way this very day.—T. B. Aldrich. A TWINKLE IN THE EYE. When there is a twinkle in the eye there is a spark of heaven in the heart. —Dr G. H. Morrison. IDLE WORDS. The idle word is that which profits neither him that speaks nor him that hears.—Jerome. THE STRENGTH OF SELFCONFIDENCE. Half the giant’s strength is in the conviction that he is a giant.—Anon. HATRED AND LOVE. Hatred ceases not by hatred, hatred ceases only by love.—Japanese proverb. HE THAT HOLDS HIS PEACE. He that speaks sows, he that holds his peace gathers.—Proverb. WHAT GOD DOES. Let us concentrate upon what God does, rather than upon what God is.— Anon. MISFORTUNE. Misfortune is the bosom friend of the man who “didn’t think.”—Anon. A RELIGION THAT WILL NOT ENDURE. A religion which becomes a “perhaps” will not stand in the day of battle.— John Buchan. SUCCESS. Success is the realisation of the estimate you place upon yourself.—Elbert Hubbard. A CHINESE SAYING. Adversity is sometimes the rain of spring. ACT, AND YOU HAVE POWER. Do the thing and you shall have the power.—Emerson.