Character and Conduct – 3 March – ‘Doing’ more than ‘Feeling’
OUR Lord always brings back to mind that doing is more than feeling.
Pastor Pastorum, HENRY LATHAN.
A MAXIM of Professor James ‘never to suffer a single emotion to evaporate without exacting from it some practical service.
The Making of Character, Prof. JOHN MACCUNN.
BUT two ways are offered to our will –
Toil with rare triumph, Ease with safe disgrace:-
Nor deem that acts heroic wait on chance!
The man’s whole life preludes the single deed
That shall decide if his inheritance
Be with the sifted few of matchless breed,
Or with the unnoticed herd that only sleep and feed.
LOWELL.
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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 them here readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.
Suffolk Vicar 