Character and Conduct – 8 August – Friendship OUR chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. EMERSON THE end of friendship is for aid and comfort through all the passages of life and death. EMERSON EVERY man rejoices twice when he has… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 8 August – Friendship
FRIENDSHIP is a plant which cannot be forced.
…AND it is the deliverance from bondage to ourselves. It is our refuge from pride. More than all else, comradeship teaches us to walk humbly with God.
If I could choose a young man’s companions, some should be weaker than himself, that he might learn patience and charity; many should be as nearly as possible his equals, that he might have the full freedom of friendship; but most should be stronger than he was, that he might for ever be thinking humbly of himself and be tempted to higher things.
Note what the great men admired – they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
IT requires but little knowledge of society and history to assure us of the strong permeating invisible influence upon society at large of any body of men of clear thought, strong conviction, and disciplined conduct.
Do we not all know how apt we are to become like those whom we see, with whom we spend our hours, and, above all, like those whom we admire and honour? For good and for evil, alas!
THE best we can do for each other is to remove unnecessary obstacles, and the worst – to weaken any of the motives which urge us to strive.
‘QUENCH not the smoking flax’ – to which I add, ‘Never give unnecessary pain.’ The cricket is not the nightingale; why tell him so?
A MAN who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Suffolk Vicar 