Character and Conduct – 20 April – Unbalanced Memory
We are apt to forget completely a hundred little kindnesses and courtesies which one has shown us, and to remember a single careless slight or thoughtless word.
Character and Conduct – 19 April – Touchiness
TOUCHINESS, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid condition of the inward disposition. It is self-love inflamed to the acute point.
Character and Conduct – 18 April – Revenge
HE that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.
Character and Conduct – 17 April – Quarrels
DO nothing in a hurry. Nature never does. ‘Most haste, worse speed,’ says the old proverb. If you are in doubt, sleep over it. But, above all, never quarrel in a hurry.
Character and Conduct – 16 April – Quarrels
He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent even though he knows he is in the right.
Character and Conduct – 15 April – Temper
IF this be one of our chief duties – promoting the happiness of our neighbours – most certainly there is nothing which so entirely runs counter to it, and makes it impossible, as an undisciplined temper.
Character and Conduct – 14 April – Temper
CONSIDER how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Character and Conduct – 13 April – Temper
Especially I object to the assumption that his having a fundamentally good disposition is either an apology or a compensation for his bad behaviour.
Character and Conduct – 12 April – Temper
And yet men laugh over it. ‘Only temper, they call it: a little hot-headedness, a momentary ruffling of the surface, a mere passing cloud.
Character and Conduct – 11 April – Temper
If he kicks small animals, swears violently at a servant who mistakes orders, or is grossly rude to his wife, it is remarked apologetically that these things mean nothing – they are all temper.
Suffolk Vicar 