New Year's Day: Day 1 reading from "Character And Conduct" - January 1

Readings for January 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.

"New Year's Day"

Original text:

https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n19/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_1

Authors featured today:

Ephraim Peabody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Peabody
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Bishop Francis Paget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Paget

Book featured today:

"Faculties and Difficulties for Belief and Disbelief" by Bishop Francis Paget
https://archive.org/details/facultiesdifficu00page

Image: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at age 79 by Joseph Karl Stieler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg