Precept & Practice – MAY 16 – Judging
Judge nothing before the time. Till you know all, you are not fit to judge.
E. W. Moore
We must not be too sagacious in judging people by the little excrescences of their character.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (The Poet at the Breakfast Table)
The more judgment a man has the slower he will be to condemn.
Maurier
Oh God! that men would see a little clearer, Or judge less harshly where they cannot see.
Oh God! that men would draw a little nearer To one another, they’d be nearer Thee and understood.
Bracken
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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 