THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 3 August 1929, Page 4

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

LOOK AHEAD! To look buck to antiquity is.one thing; to go back to it is another. — ' Colton. * * * * DARING TO BE TRUE He serves all who (hires lie true.— Emerson. t t » • WISDOM Wisdom is the adaptation of what you have to what you need.—E. I<\ Benson. *#* * ■ LOVE DIVINE To love “because of” is busy, to love “in spite of” is divine.—Father Vernon. * * * * THE BOND OF PERFECTNESS And above all these tilings put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.—Colossiuns. * * * *

•WHEN FAILURE COMES No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.—Lord Avebury. * * • • CHEAP SAMARITANS You iiiul plenty of people willing enough to do the good Samaritan without the oil and the twopence.—Sydney Smith. * * * * SPECULATION A successful speculator is caressed and courted; an unfortunate one, despised and avoided. —Muyhew. * * • • MAHOMET’S AVERSIONS There arc two tilings which 1 abhor —tile learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.—Mahomet. -* * • * THE POWER OF SILENCE

A man who lives right and is right has more power by his silence than another has by bis words. —Phillips Brooks. « t t * A RIGHT TO BE PROUD If a man has a right to ne proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it, ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.— Sterne. •»# • # THE INSTRUMENT OF . PROVIDENCE I have been oiily the instrument of Providence . , Having employed all my own powers, I then confided myself to Providence and went forward.— Marshal Focli. ■ # * # # STUPID AND UNCHARITABLE A man must be excessively stupid as well as uncharitable who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.—Addison. . # .# # . * WHERE LOVE IS NOT A crowd is not company; and faces ire but a gallery of pictures, and tajk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.—Bacon. T*LEN*T—GENIUS Talent, means the ability to do well ivliat others have done already, while ;enius means the ability to do spinefiling new.—Havcloek Ellis. * * « • EVERY DAY A LITTLE LIFE Time, indeed, is a sacred gift, and such day is a little life.—Sir John jubbock. * # # •». GOD KNOWS -Vho knows ? God knows, and what he knows Is well and be9t. flie. darkness liidctk not from Him, but glows, Hear as tho morning or tho evening rose Of East or West. —Christina Rosscttii ./ 1 * * .• * LIFE’S LITTLE THINGS Life is made of little things, and that liaractcr is the best which does little ut repeated acts of beneficence, just s that conversation is the best which snsists in elegant' and pleasing houghts expressed in natural and leasing terms.—Johnson. * * * #

. THE COMMON THINGS God give me joy in the common things; In the dawn that lures, the eve that sings;

In the new grass sparkling after rain. In the late wind’s wild and weird refrain; In the springtime’s spacious field of gold, , In the precious light by winter doled. God give mo hope for each day that springs; God give me joy in the common tilings! —Thomas Curtis Clark. s • .* # THE HASTE AFTER RICHES If men were content to grow, rich somewhat more slowly, they would grow rich much more surely. If they would use their capital within reasonable limits, find transact with it only so much business as it could fairly control, they would be far less liable to lose it. Excessive profits always involve the liability of great risk. As in a lottery, in which there arc high prizes, there must be a great proportion of blanks. —Waylaud. * * • a MIDNIGHT Midnight was come, when every vital thing With sweet sound sleep their weary limbs did rest, The beasts wero still, the little birds that sing Now swcei/Iy slept, beside their mother’s breast, The old and all were shrouded in their nest: The waters calm, the cruel seas did cease, The woods, and fields, and all things held their peace. —Buckhurst. * * * #

SELF-EXAMINATION Let no soft slumber close mijie eyes, Ere I have recollected thrice The train of actions through the day. Where have my feet mark’d out their way ? What have I learnt where’er I’ve been, From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen? What know I more that’s worth the knowing? What have I done that’s worth the doing V What have I sought that I should shun ? What duties have I left undone? Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road That leads to virtue and to God —From the Greek of “Pythagoras.” •*• * •

THE DUTIES OF YOUTH The first years of man must make provision for the last. He that never thinks never can be wise. Perpetual levity must end in ignorance; and intemperance. though it may fire the spirits for an hour, will make life short or miserable. Let us consider that youth is of no long duration, and that in mature age, when the enchantments of fancy shall cease, and phantoms of delight dance no more about us, we

shall have no comforts but the esteem of wise mpn, and the means of doing good; let us therefore stop, while to stop is in our power; let us live as men who arc some time to grow old, apd to whom it will be the most dreadful of all evils to count their past “by follies, and to be reminded of their former luxuriance of health only by the maladies which riot has produced. —ltasselas.