Precept and Practice – AUGUST 9 – Love – The Fountain in the Heart
Better to love than be beloved,
Though lonely all the day;
Better the fountain in the heart
Than the fountain by the way.
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A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 8 – Love and Self-love
When Love is hurt, it is self-love that requires the opiate,
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 7 – Love
Self is the only prison that ever binds the soul;
Love is the only angel who can bid the gates unroll:
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 6 – Jealousy
Jealousy is impossible to love, for ‘love seeketh not its own’; and jealousy is always selfishness.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 5 – The Bane of Friendship
For truly, nothing does so freeze affection, as the breath of jealousy.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 4 – Old friends
Fellow Travellers.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness You feel, as I do, that the real tie lies in the feelings and expectations we have raised in other minds. Else all pledges might be broken, when there was no outward penalty. There would be no such thing as faithfulness. George Eliot Friend, if earthly violence or ill, Suspicion,… Continue reading Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 2 – Plain Dealing
Sincerity seems our only security against losing those who love us, the only cup in which those who are worth keeping will care to pledge us when youth is past.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 1 – The Aim of Friendship
The aim of true friendship anywhere is not to make life easy for one’s friend, but to make something of the friend.
Precept and Practice – JULY 31 – The Language of Friends
It isn’t your mind that is needed here, or what you know; it is your heart and what you feel.
Suffolk Vicar 