Character and Conduct – 13 September – Bearing Sorrow
IT is dangerous to abandon oneself to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Amiel’s Journal
ITS way of suffering is the witness which a soul bears to itself.
Amiel’s Journal
WE must bury our dead joys
And live above them with a living world.
GEORGE ELIOT
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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 