THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

ALL MEN ARE EQUAL All men are equal—but it’s what they’re equal to ’hat counts. —Anon. REJOICE IN OUR DAY Let us take issue with despondency, and break a lance against fear, and rejoice in our day.—Anon. THE MIND THAT MATTERS .Fortune can give much, but it’s the mind that makes that much enough.— Boyle. # » AN ARCHER’S MOTTO Every arrow is of consequence and no prize is lost till it be worn WISE MEN The wiser men are, the less they talk about "cannot.” —Charles Kingsley. THE COURAGE OF FAITH The courage of faith, even though it be a false faith, will always outstay the courage of wrath.—G. Shaw. LIBERTY Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste; civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure. —Paley. * * • • DESTINY If we cannot shape our destiny, there is no such thing as witchcraft. —Disraeli. * * * * LOST SELF Love took lip the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. —Tennyson. * * * • LOVE WOMAN’S WHOLE BEING Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses herself and what she has of heart and happiness in the object she loves. —Richter. '* * * LOVE AND LIFE Love is life’s end (an end, but never ending), All joyes, all sweetes, all happiness awarding; Love is life’s wealth (ne’er spent, but ever spending), More rick by giving, taking by discarding Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.—Edmund Spenser. * * * * LOVE EMBALMED IN TEARS The rose is fairest when ’tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears; The rose is sweetest wash’d with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. —Sir Walter Scott.

WE LIVE IN DEEDS We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins. —Philip James Bailey. * * * • . FREEDOM Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it w.orks a brother’s pain, Are ye nob slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? They are slaves who fear to apeak For the fallen and the weak : They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. —James Russell Lowell. * * » * FAILURE TO FEAR The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose.he sees to be best. —George Eliot. THE NOT FORGOTTEN LIVE To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead. —Samuel Butler. # * * * THE OUTSTRETCHED HAND No one of himself can i’ise out of the depths, but must clasp some outstretched hand.—Seneca. * * # # WHEN MONEY GREW HONOURABLE Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honour; honour is both the child and slave of potent money; the credit which honour has lost, money hath found., When honour grew mercenary, money grew honourable. — Quarles. * * « • CRITICISM Criticism very often consists in measuring the learning and wisdom of others, either by our own ignorance or by our little technical and pedantic partialities and prejudices.—Horace Smith. ‘ # * * # DIFFICULTIES MASTERED If blessed are those who have no difficulties, still more blessed are those who liave had them and overcome them, and thereby are better able to guide and encourage those who are wandering in the same darkness, stumbling over the same pitfalls.

—Bishop Thar old. # *' * ' * THE BRAGGARTS Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least.— Gay. # * * * THE GOOD IN OTHERS If there be any good in thee, believe there is much more in others. —Thomas a Kcmpis. # # # * BEAUTY FOR GOOD AND EVIL Beauty is a great power, and it may be used for good as well as for evil. Beauty is beneficent, as well as malign. Angels are allowed to be beautiful, and our highest ideal of manhood is associated with physical, as well as moral, perfection. Yes! be sure that beauty is a legitimate means of grace.—Sarah Grand. », * * * SUCCESS

“Every man must patiently bide his time; not in idleness, in useful pastime, or querulous dejection, but in constantly accomplishing his task, that when occasion comes he may be equal to it. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, without a thought of fame. If it comes at all,- it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. It is very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so much what the world says of us; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting, to hear the echoes of outvoices.”

—Henry Ward Beecher.