Character and Conduct – 15 June – Public Opinion
We forget that while we are not required to judge our neighbours, we are required to judge ourselves.
Category: poem
Character and Conduct – 14 June – The Code of Society
THERE is no commoner danger than that of accepting the code of the society in which you live as the rule of right.
Character and Conduct – 13 June – Egotism
He who is always enquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him.
Character and Conduct – 12 June – Humility
HUMILITY is the hall-mark of wisdom.
Character and Conduct – 11 June – Conceit
Pride mars, blights, and withers whatever it touches. It begets assumptions that are very belittling as well as hard to bear.
Character and Conduct – 10 June – Pride
THE foundation of pride is the wish to respect one’s self, whatever others may think; the mainspring of vanity is the craving for the admiration of others, no matter at what cost to one’s self-respect.
Character and Conduct – 9 June – Flattery
SELF-LOVE is the greatest Flatterer in the World.
Character and Conduct – 8 June – Calumny
THE power men possess to annoy me I give them.
Character and Conduct – 7 June – Calumny
IF any one tells you such a one has spoken ill of you, do not refute them in that particular; but answer, had he known all my vices, he had not spoken only of that one.
Character and Conduct – 6 June – Faults
IT is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Suffolk Vicar 