Character and Conduct – 10 December – A Happy Childhood
THE main duty of those who care for the young is to secure their wholesome, their entire growth;
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Character and Conduct – 9 December – The Object of Education
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
Character and Conduct – 8 December – The Object of Education
We shall be agreed once more that the noblest fruit of education is character, and not acquirements:
Character and Conduct – 7 December – Books
READING furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; It is thinking makes what we read ours.
Character and Conduct – 6 December – Books
WHEN I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith…
I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.
Character and Conduct – 5 December – Books
This, Books can do;- nor this alone, they give
New views to life, and teach us how to live;
They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise,
Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise:
Character and Conduct – 4 December – Holidays
THERE are only two rules for a successful holiday; the first is to earn it, the second is to have just enough holiday to make the prospect of work pleasant.
Character and Conduct – 3 December – Nature
THE cheerfulness of heart which springs up in us from the survey of Nature’s works, is an admirable preparation for gratitude.
Character and Conduct – 2 December – Nature
REST is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.
Character and Conduct – 1 December – The Gospel of Beauty
BEAUTY is far too much neglected. It never belongs to criticism; it ought by right to be always bound up with creation.
Suffolk Vicar 