Character and Conduct – 16 November – Discontent

DISCONTENT is want of self-reliance;  it is infirmity of will.

EMERSON

TO repel one’s cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel’s Journal

SHE had that rare sense which discerns what is unalterable;  and submits to it without murmuring.

GEORGE ELIOT

But for me,

What good I see, humbly I seek to do, 

And live obedient to the Law, in trust

That what will come and shall come, must come well.

The Light of Asia, B. ARNOLD

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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.