CharacterAndConduct

Readings for June 13 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. "Egotism" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n181/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_164 Author featured today: James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell Image: James Russell Lowell https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_R_Lowell.jpg

Readings for June 12 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. "Humility" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n179/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_163 Authors featured today: Archdeacon Julius Hare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Hare Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain) Jeremy Collier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Collier Books featured today: "Guesses at Truth" by Archdeacon Julius Hare https://archive.org/details/guessesattruth01haregoog/page/n378/mode/2up?q=What+hypocrites "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm "The Gospel of Joy" by Stopford Brooke https://archive.org/details/gospeljoy00broogoog Image: Jeremy Collier, 1650 - 1726 https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/26810/jeremy-collier-1650-1726-non-juring-divine

Readings for June 11 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. "Conceit" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n179/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_162 Author featured today: Plutarch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Image: Bust of Plutarch at Chaeronea https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plutarch_of_Chaeronea-03_(cropped).jpg

Readings for June 10 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. "Pride" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n177/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_161 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel F. Marion Crawford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion_Crawford Canon Samuel Barnett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_(reformer) Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm "The Heart of Rome" by F. Marion Crawford https://archive.org/details/heartofrome00crawuoft/page/36/mode/2up?q=The+foundation+of+pride Image: Francis Marion Crawford https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F_Marion_Crawford.jpg

Readings for June 9 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. "Flattery" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n177/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_160 Authors featured today: François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Philip Wicksteed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wicksteed https://oll.libertyfund.org/person/philip-h-wicksteed https://mises.org/profile/philip-h-wicksteed Note: the author of the fourth reading is mispelled as "Wickstead" in the original text. The quote is from "Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen, Dealing Chiefly With His Metrical Works" by Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844-1927). https://archive.org/details/fourlecturesonhe00wickiala/page/54/mode/2up?q=The+devil+has Image: Philip Wicksteed, 1906 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Wicksteed.png

Readings for June 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. "Calumny" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n175/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_159 Authors featured today: Ben Jonson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson William Cowper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cowper Image: Benjamin Jonson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Jonson_by_Abraham_van_Blyenberch.jpg

Readings for June 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. "Calumny" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n175/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_158 Authors featured today: Sir Arthur Helps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Helps Epictetus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus Image: Sir Arthur Helps, KCB, DCL (July 1813 - 7 March 1875), English writer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArthurHelps.jpg

Readings for June 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. "Obstinacy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n173/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_157 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 Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_de_Clapiers%2C_marquis_de_Vauvenargues Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LucdeClapiers-marquisdeVauvenarges.jpg

Readings for June 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. "Faults" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n173/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_156 Authors featured today: Archbishop Robert Leighton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Leighton_(bishop) Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Thomas Carlyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Unattributed quotation featured today: The unattributed quotation can be found in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 259, published in 1885: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gentleman_s_Magazine/_xBIAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22To+hide+a+fault+with+a+lie+is+to+replace+a+blot+by+a+hole%22&pg=PA563&printsec=frontcover It is also found in the 24 December 1885 issue of the Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, on page 3, column five, near the bottom of the page. https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=THWG18851224.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Neither publication provides a direct attribution, but The Gentleman's Magazine includes it as one of many quotes from "Bluettes et Boutades" by John Petit-Senn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Antoine_Petit-Senn Image: Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow - 1825 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_leighton.jpg

Readings for June 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. "Bearing Criticism" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n171/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_155 Authors featured today: Blaise Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal Alexander Pope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope Image: Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744), possibly the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Pope_by_Michael_Dahl.jpg

Readings for June 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. "Heredity" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n171/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_154 Authors featured today: Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Hugh Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Black_(theologian) Book featured today: "The Mind of the Master" by Rev. Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/mindofmaster00watsiala Image: Hugh Black, Scottish-American theologian and author https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HughBlack.jpg

Reading for June 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. "Heredity" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n169/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_153 Author featured today: Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Book featured today: "The Ideal Life" by Henry Drummond https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22822/page/n71/mode/2up?q=This+tracing Image: Henry Drummond, Scottish Evangelical https://fineartamerica.com/featured/henry-drummond-scottish-evangelical-mary-evans-picture-library.html

Readings for June 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. "Heredity" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n169/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_152 Authors featured today: Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks James Lane Allen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lane_Allen Book featured today: "The Mettle of the Pasture" by James Lane Allen https://archive.org/details/mettlepasture01cogoog Image: James Lane Allen http://www.kentuckymonthly.com/culture/arts-entertainment/2016-hall-of-fame/

Readings for May 31 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. "Repentance" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n167/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_151 Authors featured today: Canon George Body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Body Dean Frederic Farrar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Farrar Bishop Walsham How https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsham_How Book featured today: "The Guided Life" by Canon George Body https://archive.org/details/guidedlifeorlif00bodygoog Image: William Walsham How (1823-1897), Bishop of Wakefield https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw159047/William-Walsham-How

Readings for May 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. "Conscience" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n167/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_150 Authors featured today: George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Image: George Eliot (1819-1880), pen name of Mary Ann Evans, aged 30, by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Eliot,_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_D%27Albert_Durade.jpg

Readings for May 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. "Sin" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n165/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_149 Authors featured today: Rev Robert William Barbour, father of George Freeland Barbour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Freeland_Barbour James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell Image: James Russell Lowell - American professor, poet, and diplomat https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_R_Lowell.jpg

Readings for May 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. "Sin" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n165/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_148 Authors featured today: Robert Burns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns Ivan Turgenev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Turgenev Book featured today: "An Unhappy Girl" by Ivan Turgenev http://www.online-literature.com/turgenev/2709/ Image: Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PG_1063Burns_Naysmith.jpg

Readings for May 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. "Sins of the Spirit" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n163/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_147 Author featured today: Bishop Arthur Winnington-Ingram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Winnington-Ingram Book featured today: "Friends of the Master" by Bishop Arthur Winnington-Ingram https://archive.org/details/friendsmaster00ingrgoog Image: Arthur Winnington-Ingram (1858-1946) Bishop of London https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_Winnington-Ingram_before_1939.png

Readings for May 25-26 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. "Sin" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n161/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_145 Authors featured today: Bishop William Temple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_(bishop) Blaise Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal Image: Blaise Pascal https://totallyhistory.com/blaise-pascal/

Readings for May 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. "Sin" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n161/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_144 Authors featured today: Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Book featured today: "The Ideal Life" Henry Drummond https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22822 "The Mind of the Master" Rev. Dr. John Watson https://archive.org/details/mindofmaster00watsiala Image: Ian Maclaren, pseudonym of Rev. Dr. John Watson, Scottish author and theologian (3 November 1850 – 6 May 1907) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Maclaren_001.jpg

Readings for May 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. "Temptation" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n159/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_143 Authors featured today: Canon Henry Liddon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Liddon Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Book featured today: "The Ideal Life" by Henry Drummond https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22822 "Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft Image: Henry Parry Liddon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Henry_Parry_Liddon.jpg

Readings for May 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. "Sin has its Pedigree" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n159/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_142 Authors featured today: Canon Malcolm MacColl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_MacColl Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Book featured today: "The Ideal Life" by Henry Drummond https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22822 Image: Canon Malcolm MacColl https://www.cornucopia.net/magazine/articles/clerical-error/

Readings for May 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. "Habit" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n157/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_141 Authors featured today: Professor William James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks President William McKinley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley Book featured today: "The Principles of Psychology" http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/index.htm https://archive.org/details/theprinciplesofp01jameuoft https://archive.org/details/theprinciplesofp00jameuoft Image: Photograph of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKinley_(cropped).jpg

Readings for May 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. "Habit" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n157/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_140 Authors featured today: Jeremy Bentham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Jeremy Bentham by Henry William Pickersgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremy_Bentham_by_Henry_William_Pickersgill_detail.jpg

Readings for May 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. "Character—Our Echoes roll from Soul to Soul" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n155/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_139 Authors featured today: Hare is likely Augustus Hare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Hare https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Augustus-Hare-Travel-Writer/ Henry Ward Beecher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ward_Beecher Edwin Arnold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arnold Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Book and poem featured today: "The Light of Asia" by Edwin Arnold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Asia "The Splendor Falls" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://poets.org/poem/splendor-falls Image: Henry Ward Beecher https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Ward_Beecher_-_Brady-Handy.jpg