CharacterAndConduct

Readings for July 8 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Gossip" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n205/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_189 Authors featured today: George Meredith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meredith William Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Book featured today: "Diana of the Crossways" by George Meredith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_of_the_Crossways https://archive.org/search.php?query=Diana%20of%20the%20Crossways "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare http://shakespeare.mit.edu/cleopatra/cleopatra.2.5.html Image: George Meredith, by George Frederic Watts https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Meredith_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg

Readings for July 7 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Truthfulness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n205/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_188 Authors featured today: Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson The text attributed to "Amman" is most often attributed to Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22violated%20by%20falsehood%22&sin=TXT (it was attributed to "Ammiau" in the 5 November 1908 edition of "The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star" https://archive.org/details/millennialstar7045eng/page/800/mode/2up?q=violated+by+falsehood) Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Book featured for July 7: "Virginibus Puerisque" by Robert Louis Stevenson https://archive.org/search.php?query=Virginibus%20Puerisque http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/works/virginibus-puerisque-1881/ Stevenson's title is from Horace's Odes 3.1.4: virginibus puerisque canto ("I sing to maids and youths"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odes_(Horace) Image: 1887 photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert-louis-stevenson.jpg

Readings for July 6 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Truthfulness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n203/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_187 Authors featured today: Michel de Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Image: Portrait of Michel de Montaigne https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Michel_de_Montaigne,_circa_unknown.jpg

Readings for July 5 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Truthfulness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n203/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_186 Authors featured today: Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson Book featured for July 5: "Virginibus Puerisque" by Robert Louis Stevenson https://archive.org/search.php?query=Virginibus%20Puerisque http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/works/virginibus-puerisque-1881/ Stevenson's title is from Horace's Odes 3.1.4: virginibus puerisque canto ("I sing to maids and youths"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odes_(Horace) Image: Portrait photograph from a ninth-plate daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_D._Maxham_-_Henry_David_Thoreau_-_Restored_-_greyscale_-_straightened.jpg

Readings for July 4 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Accuracy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n201/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_184 Authors featured today: Jean-François de La Harpe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Harpe Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_de_Clapiers%2C_marquis_de_Vauvenargues Herbert Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer Image: Jean François de La Harpe (1739-1803) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Harpe_-_Versailles_MV_3003.jpg

Readings for July 3 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Truthfulness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n201/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_184 Authors featured today: Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks J. A. Froude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anthony_Froude Samuel Smiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles Image: James Anthony Froude, by Sir George Reid https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Anthony_Froude_by_Sir_George_Reid.jpg

Readings for July 2 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Truth" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n199/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_183 Authors featured today: Likely to be Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh Sir Lewis Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Morris_(1833%E2%80%931907) Samuel Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson Image: Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg

Readings for July 1 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "False Impressions" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n199/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_182 Authors featured today: Henry Ward Beecher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Image: Henry Ward Beecher, between 1855 and 1865 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Ward_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg

Readings for June 30 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Contemptuousness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n197/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_181 Authors featured today: Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Books featured today: "Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft "Alfred Lord Tennyson; a Memoir" by Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://archive.org/details/alfredlordtennys01tennuoft Image: Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ac.tennyson.jpg

Reading for June 29 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Judging" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n197/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_180 Author featured today: George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Image: George Eliot (1819-1880), aged 30, by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (1804-1886), whose family she lived with while in Switzerland. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Eliot,_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_D%27Albert_Durade.jpg

Readings for June 28 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Justice and Mercy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n195/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_179 Authors featured today: Very Reverend John Caird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Caird_(theologian) John Greenleaf Whittier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier Image: The Very Reverend John Caird (1820 - 1898) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Caird_(theologian).jpg

Readings for June 27 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Judging" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n195/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_178 Authors featured today: Christina Rossetti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti Frances Hodgson Burnett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett George MacDonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald Book featured today: "In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim" by Frances Hodgson Burnett https://archive.org/details/cu31924022053163 Image: Frances Burnett, part of a photograph by Herbert Rose Barraud https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_Burnett.jpg

Readings for June 26 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Biassed Judgments" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n193/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_177 Authors featured today: Blaise Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Book featured today: "Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft Image: Portrait of Blaise Pascal, artist unknown https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blaise_Pascal_2.jpg

Readings for June 25 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Judging" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n193/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_176 Authors featured today: Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) John Oliver Hobbes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oliver_Hobbes Book featured today: "The Potter's Wheel" Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/potterswheel00maclgoog Image: Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (1867 – 1906), Anglo-American novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pen name John Oliver Hobbes https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Oliver_Hobbes,_1902.jpg

Readings for June 24 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Harsh Judgment" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n191/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_175 Author featured today: Christina Rossetti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti The second quote is unattributed, but is found on page 354 of "The Year Book of American Authors" compiled by Ida Scott Taylor https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Year_Book_of_American_Authors/52UXAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22we+mark+men%27s+speech%22&pg=PA354&printsec=frontcover and is attributed to Richard Burton, likely Sir Richard Francis Burton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton Image: Portrait of Christina Rossetti by Dante Gabriel Rossetti https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christina_Rossetti_2.jpg

Readings for June 23 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Sound Judgment" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n191/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_174 Authors featured today: Bishop Francis Paget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Paget Richard Hooker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker Book featured today: "Studies in the Christian Character" Bishop Francis Paget https://archive.org/details/studiesinchristi00page Image: Richard Hooker (1607-1677) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Richard_Hooker_(State_1).jpg

Readings for June 22 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Sound Judgment" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n189/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_173 Authors featured today: George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Johann Paul Friedrich Richter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Paul Book featured today: "Scenes of Clerical Life" by George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_of_Clerical_Life#%22The_Sad_Fortunes_of_the_Reverend_Amos_Barton%22 Image: Johann Paul Friedrich Richter https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RichterJP.jpg

Readings for June 21 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Sound Judgment" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n189/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_172 Authors featured today: Thomas Babington Macaulay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22MacCunn%2C+John%2C+1846-1929%22 Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Photogravure of the British historian and Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay by the French photographer Antoine Claudet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Babington_Macaulay2.jpg

Readings for June 20 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Balance" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n187/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_171 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Bishop Francis Paget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Paget Book featured today: "Studies in the Christian Character" by Bishop Francis Paget https://archive.org/details/studiesinchristi00page Image: Francis Paget DD (1851-1911), Bishop of Oxford https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francis_Paget.jpg

Readings for June 19 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Balance" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n187/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_170 Authors featured today: Bishop Jeremy Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury The third reading is unattributed in "Character and Conduct" but is credited to Constance M. Whishaw in "Words of Wisdom," edited by Leonard Safir and William Safire. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Words_of_Wisdom/bdTko5oHTd4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Place+a+guard+over+your+strong+points%22&pg=PA365&printsec=frontcover Image: Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremytaylor.jpg

Readings for June 18 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Temperance" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n185/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_169 Authors featured today: Hamish MacCunn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_MacCunn Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Book featured today: "The Making of Character" Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/details/makingofcharacte00maccuoft/page/172/mode/2up?q=simply+to+know Image: Hamish MacCunn https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamish_MacCunn.JPG

Readings for June 17 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Spiritual Balance and Proportion" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n185/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_168 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Lucy Soulsby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Soulsby Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Lucy Soulsby https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1896-Miss-Lucy_Soulsby_(sq_cropped).png

Readings for June 16 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Public Opinion" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n183/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_167 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://search.brave.com/images?q=Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric%20Amiel

Readings for June 15 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "Public Opinion" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n183/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_166 Authors featured today: Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Image: Charles Kingsley. Photograph by Charles Watkins https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Kingsley._Photograph_by_Charles_Watkins._Wellcome_V0026646.jpg

Readings for June 14 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw. "The Code of Society" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n181/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_165 Authors featured today: Bishop Charles Gore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gore Bishop William Temple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_(bishop) Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Image: Bishop Charles Gore, 1902 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Gore_NPG.jpg https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=x159087&eDate=&lDate=