Precept & Practice – APRIL 5 – Magnanimity
To do him any wrong was to beget
A kindness from him, for his heart was rich
Of such fine mould, that if you sowed therein The seed of hate, it blossomed charity.
Tennyson
Think of Christ’s generosity. An open, tolerant, and kindly temper, that welcomes confidence, that overlooks faults, that makes much of any good in other men, that easily forgives wrong; that is a part of any ordinary notion of manliness.
Bishop Phillips Brooks
Mighty of heart – mighty of mind- ‘Magnanimous’ – to be this indeed is to be great in life,- is Life itself – not in the happenings of it.
Ruskin
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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
Suffolk Vicar 