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…
She had thought too much to be able to indulge in the primitive luxury of unqualified condemnation.
HUMAN speech conveys different meanings to differently biassed minds.
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
HOW often we judge unjustly when we judge harshly… Whoso judges harshly is sure to judge amiss.
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;
NEVER does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
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.
…help to keep consistency from hardening to obstinacy, and common sense from sinking into time-serving;
TEMPERANCE is reason’s girdle and passion’s bridle.
