Character and Conduct – 14 April – Temper
CONSIDER how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
MARCUS AURELIUS.
THE difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humour of others.
EMPSON.
DO we not know that the storm of feeling can be checked, if only we can prevent the first word from being spoken, the first gesture from being made. And is it not matter of common observation that persons who begin by being Stoics in demeanour end by becoming Stoics in reality?
The Making of Character, Professor MAcCUNN.
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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.
Suffolk Vicar 