was stolen? That which we have inside we see outside. The baby has no thief inside, and sees no thief outside. -SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.

When an evil thought enters the mind, it is better not to fight with it directly, but to utilise the fact that the mind can think only of one thing at a time; let the mind be at once turned to a good thought, and the evil one will be necessarily expelled. In fighting against anything, the very force we send out causes a corresponding reaction, and thus increases our trouble; whereas the turning of the mental eye to an image in a different direction causes the other image to drop silently from the field of vision. Many a man wastes years in combating impure thoughts, when quiet occupation of the mind with pure ones would leave no room for his assailants; further, as the mind thus draws to itself matter, which does not respond to the evil, he is gradually becoming positive, unreceptive to that kind of thought.

Be noble in every thought

And in every deed.

Always inculcate the paramount

-ANNIE BESANT.

necessity of the

words and deeds.

strict practice of purity of thought, Words and deeds are merely the audible and visible outcomes of the invisible intangible thought. Words and deeds therefore being the manifestations of thought, unless the latter is kept pure, the other two cannot be so. Purity of thought is consequently the main object to be attained.

Thales the Milesian, one of the seven wise men of Greece, was asked, what was the quickest thing; he

answered, “A man's thoughts, because in one moment they run over all the universe.”

Let not evil thoughts enter my mind. Oh Lord, make my mind such as to rest firmly at your feet. By your grace let this feeling of devotion bear fruit. Tukâ says now there is no (real) benefit without it (feeling of devotion).

148. TIME.

Time cures every ill.

-PROVERB.

Time solves all doubt,

By bringing Truth, his glorious daughter, out.

Time tries the troth in everything.

-T. TUSSER.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Time is the greatest innovatour; it innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, scarce to be perceived.

-BACON.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and like the flash of the lightning at once exists and expires.-Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

-COLTON.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

-OLD ITALIAN PROVERB.

Time is awake, while mortals are asleep,

None can elude his grasp, or curb his course,

He passes unrestrained o'er all alike.*

-"MAHABHARATA".

Time and tide wait for no man.

Come what come may;

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Time wears all his locks before,

-SHAKESPEARE.

Take thy hold on his forehead;
When he flies he turns no more,

And behind his scalp's naked.
Works adjourn'd have many stays,
Long demurs breed new delays.

-SOUTHWELL.

There is no hand to catch time.

-BENGALI PROVERB.

Of all prodigality that of time is the worst.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

-YOUNG.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by medicine; but lost time is gone for ever.

The hours perish and are laid to our charge.

But the tender grace of a day that is dead

Will never come back to me.

• From Indian Wisdom by Monier Willi ams.

-TENNYSON.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honour him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

-GOETHE.

Franklin said: "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

Wisdom walks before time, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it; he that has made it his friend, will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy, will have little to hope from his friends.

But from its losa.

Is wise in man.

-COLTON.

We take no note of time
To give it then a tongue
As if an angel spoke,

I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright,
It is the knell of my departed hours:

Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
It is the signal that demands despatch:

How much is to be done? My hopes and fears

Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge
Look down.

-EDWARD YOUNG.

We all of us complain of the shortness of time, said Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.