Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories

Show me the home of a boy, and I will prophesy concerning his future without a tremor of uncertainty.

G. H. Hepworth

O ye, who have young children, if possible give them happy memories!   Fill their earliest years with bright pictures.   A great historian many centuries ago wrote it down that the first thing conquered in battle are the eyes;  the soldier flees from what he sees before him.   But so often in the world’s fight we are defeated by what we look back upon;  we are whipped in the end by things we saw in the beginning of life. 

James Lane Allen (The Increasing Purpose)

The troubles of the young are soon over;  they leave no external mark.   If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash;  but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still.

All that is buried is not dead. 

Ralph Iron

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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