THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 October 1942, Page 6

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

THE UPWARD URGE To see how God in all His creatures ' works! Yea, man and birds are fain ol! j climbing high.—Shakespeare. j BOOKS Books are men of higher stature. And the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. —E. B. Browning. PAST FOLLY The shame is not in having once been foolish, but in not cutting the folly short—Horace. REST FOR THE WEARY Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. —St. Matthew. PITY AND CHARITY A tear for pity and a hand Open as day lor melting charity. —Shakespeare. DOING THINGS Go and do things; you are bound to succeed in some of them. —Patrick MacKinnon. FAITHFULNESS" IN SMALL THINGS A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue. —St. Bonaventure. INCONVENIENCE ; An inconvenience is an adventure | wrongly considered.—Chesterton. | GOOD MEN AND GOOD DEEDS A good man makes no noise over j a good deed, but passes on to another [ as a v ‘ n e to bear grapes in season. —Marcus Aurelius ‘ , JUSTICE AND MIG*HT ! We must .. . put together justice j and force; and ... so dispose things that whatsoever is just is mighty, and j whatsoever is mighty is just.—Pascal. ! COURAGE IS ABOVE FORTUNE • Fortune, who gives and takes awav iah other human blessings, has no I power over courage.—Ariosto. GOD IS THE AVENGER That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter; because that the Lord is the avenger of all such.—St. Paul.

A LOYAL TOAST Heaven, from Thy endless goodness, send prosperous life, long, and ever happy . .to your royal grace and the good Queen.—Shakespeare. A DREAM OF HAPPINESS Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but to-day well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness. —From tlie Sanskrit, CHARACTER * Character is simply habit long continued.—Plutarch. THE CHRISTIAN WAY OF LIFE Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th’ action fine. —Herbert. TO OVERCOME ANGER Delay is the greatest remedy for auger.—Seneca. the power of the TONGUE Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindlethi— St. James. BELIEF IN ONE*SELF AND SINCERITY OF PURPOSE If a man believed himself capable ol anything, put into his project all the best there was in him, and carried on in absolute sincerity of purpose, he could accomplish nearly any reasonable aim.—Grey Owl, LOVE OF OBEDIENCE I would rather obey than work miracles.—Martin Luther. A ( -- ( - , NFESSION OF IGNORANCE “ modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy.—R. d. Hitchcock. CULTIVATE GOOD HABITS Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

—Anon. SELF-KNOWLEDGE Know thyself is one of the most useful and comprehensive precepts m the whole moral system; and it is well known in how great a veneration this maxim was held by the ancients’ and m how high esteem tlie duty of sell-examination is necessary to it. inales, the Milesian, the prince of the ?'vm° J 2?! lers ’ who fl °urished about , uip and was contemporary to Josiah, King of Judah, is said to be the first author of it; who used to say—that "for a man to know himself is the hardest thing in the world.” It was afterwards adopted by Chylon, the Lacedaemonian; and is one of those three precepts which Pliny affirms to have been consecrated at Delphos m golden letters. It was afterwards greatly admired, and frequently adopted by others, till at length it acquired the authority of a divine oracle, and was supposed to have been given originally by Apollo nimself. Of which general opinion Cicero gives us this reason—“because it hath such a weight of sense and wisdom in it, as appears too great to be attributed to any man.” And this opinion, of its coming originally from Apollo himself, perhaps was the reason that it was written in golden =? P n» \° Ver ,S? e door of hi s temple at Delphos.—W. Mason. PRE-EMINENCE' OF PEACE Peace is the first of necessities, and the first of glories.—Napoleon I. ! MAN MUST PHILOSOPHISE Man philosophises as he lives. He may philosophise well or ill, but philosophise he must. . t —Sir W. Hamilton. DECAY OF ZEAL Zeal Will soon wax cold, as water 1 • . Is 4315611 from the vessel in which it is, or iron taken out of the fire.—Dr. Gouge. THE LOVE OF A MOTHER There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother’s heart.— Hemans. DISAPPOINTED PRIDE Nothing can be got, but much may be lost, by triumphing before a battle. When Charles V invaded France, he lost his generals and a great part of his army by famine and disease; and i eturned baffled and thoroughly mortified from an enterprise which h e with such confidence of its happy issue, that he desired Paul Jovius, the historian, to make a large provision of paper to record the victories which he was going to acquire. —Bishop Horne.