Character and Conduct – 26 April – Reparation
ALL high happiness has in it some element of love; all love contains a desire for peace. One immediate effect of new happiness is to make us turn toward the past with a wish to straighten out its difficulties, heal its breaches and forgive its wrongs.
JAMES LANE ALLEN.
As long as we love, we can forgive.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
WHEN it is our duty to do an act of justice it should be done promptly. To delay is injustice.
LA BRUVÈRE.
HIS heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
EMERSON (said of Lincoln).
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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 