Character and Conduct – 4 July – Accuracy
IT is no great advantage to have a lively wit if exactness be wanting. The perfection of a clock does not consist in its going fast, but in its keeping good time.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Character and Conduct – 3 July – Truthfulness
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in this world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
Character and Conduct – 2 July – Truth
Those who habitually sacrifice truth in small things will find it difficult to pay her the respect they should do in great things.
Character and Conduct – 1 July – False Impressions
A LIE which is half a truth Is ever the blackest of lies.
Character and Conduct – 30 June – Contempuousness
It is a little or immature or uneducated mind which readily despises.
Character and Conduct – 29 June – Judging
IT is my way when I observe any instance of folly, any queer or absurd illusion, straightway to look for something of the same type in myself,
Character and Conduct – 28 June – Justice and Mercy
Quickness to detect and expose the weakness and frailties of a fellow-man, harshness in condemning them, mercilessness in punishing them, are not the characteristics which experience would lead us to expect in a very high and noble nature…
Character and Conduct – 27 June – Judging
She had thought too much to be able to indulge in the primitive luxury of unqualified condemnation.
Character and Conduct – 26 June – Blessed Judgments
HUMAN speech conveys different meanings to differently biassed minds.
Character and Conduct – 25 June – Judging
Character and Conduct – 25 June – Judging PERHAPS it were better for most of us to complain less of being misunderstood, and to take more care that we do not misunderstand other people. It ought to give us pause at a time to remember that each one has a stock of cut-and-dry judgments on his… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 25 June – Judging
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