Precept and Practice – AUGUST 5 – The Bane of Friendship

Jealousy and distrust are the bane of friendship, whose essence is esteem and affiance.

(Chapone)

For truly, nothing does so freeze affection, as the breath of jealousy.

Jealousy of all sorts – whether for our fortune or our love is ready at combinations, and likely even to outstrip the fact.

The vice of envy is not only a dangerous but a mean vice, for it is always a confession of inferiority.   It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.   It will not be any the less fruitful of wrong and misery if, as is so often the case with evil motives, it adopts some high-sounding alias.

(Theodore Roosevelt)

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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