Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 10 – Four Good Habits

Here are four good habits – punctuality, accuracy, steadiness, and despatch.   Without the first of these, time is wasted;  without the second, mistakes, the most hurtful to our own credit and interest, and that of others, may be committed;  without the third, nothing can be well done;  and without the fourth, opportunities of great advantage are lost, which it is impossible to recall.

Lord Nelson

Don’t hurry!  …or you’ll never get through!

W. M. Hunt

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW