Character and Conduct – 1 July – False Impressions
A LIE which is half a truth Is ever the blackest of lies.
Category: Church of England
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 – 24 June – Harsh Judgment
HOW often we judge unjustly when we judge harshly… Whoso judges harshly is sure to judge amiss.
Character and Conduct – 23 June – Sound Judgment
It is good counsel that a man should, if he has the chance, reconsider after his holiday any important decision that he was inclined to make just before it; that he should appeal from his tired to his refreshed self;
Character and Conduct – 22 June – Sound Judgment
NEVER does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
Character and Conduct – 21 June – Sound Judgment
We find it difficult to think well of those by whom we are thwarted or depressed, and we are ready to admit every excuse for the vices of those who are useful or agreeable to us.
