Precept & Practice – APRIL 14 – Harmony

Our dress, house and furniture should certainly be decent and becoming our condition;  but Christian simplicity should be our most beautiful adornment…..   our dress should be in keeping with our position in society, 

The Manual of the Third Order of St Francis

Grant me to become beautiful in the inner man, and whatsoever outward things I have, may be at peace with those within.

Prayer of Socrates

In character, in manners, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Longfellow

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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