Character and Conduct – 10 January – Life, a School

ALL life is a school, a preparation, a purpose:  nor can we pass current in a higher college, if we do not undergo the tedium of education in this lower one.

Tennyson – a Memoir, by his Son

LIFE is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

EMERSON

WE never know for what God is preparing us in His schools, for what work on earth, for what work in the hereafter.   Our business is to do our work well in the present place, whatever that may be.

LYMAN ABBOTT

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These quotes are from ‘Character and Conduct’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.

Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1905 as a follow up to her volume of Daily Readings for members of the Being and Doing Guild who asked for an additional volume

In her preface Whishaw writes:

‘This collection of noble thoughts expressed by men and women of past and present ages who have endeavoured to leave the world a little better than they found it.’

It is my hope in publishing the her readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.