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Character and conduct : $b A book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages

Philosophy

Character and conduct : $b A book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages

Calendars; Meditations

"There are very, very few from whom we get that higher, deeper, broader
help which it is the prerogative of true excellence in judgment to
bestow: help to discern, through the haste and insistence of the
present, what is its real meaning and its just demand; help to give due
weight to what is reasonable, however unreasonably it may be stated or
defended; help to reverence alike the sacredness of a great cause and
the sacredness of each individual life, to adjust the claims of general
rules and special equity; help to carry with one conscientiously, on the
journey towards decision, all the various thoughts that ought to tell
upon the issue; help to keep consistency from hardening to obstinacy,
and common sense from sinking into time-serving; help to think out one's
duty as in a still, pure air, sensitive to all true signs and voices of
this world, and yet unshaken by its storms."

                   _Studies in the Christian Character_, Bishop PAGET.


Sound Judgment


JUNE 21

"We are all inclined to judge of others as we find them. Our estimate of
a character always depends much on the manner in which the character
affects our own interests and passions. We find it difficult to think
well of those by whom we are thwarted or depressed, and we are ready to
admit every excuse for the vices of those who are useful or agreeable to
us."

                                                             MACAULAY.

"To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just, and therefore to
be impartial,--more exactly, to be disinterested,--more exactly still,
to be impersonal."

                                                    _Amiel's Journal._

"Of all human faculties there is none which more enriches our lives than
a sound moral judgment. Genius is rarer and more wonderful. But this
surpasses even genius in the fact that it is not only in itself a
virtue, but the fruitful mother of virtues. It is as Aristotle said,
'Given a sound judgment and all the virtues will follow in its train.'

       *       *       *       *       *

"If the moral judgment is to be sound it must presuppose character,
faculty to deliberate, and enlightenment."

                         _The Making of Character_, Professor MACCUNN.


Sound Judgment


JUNE 22

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Philosophy

Character and conduct : $b A book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages

Calendars; Meditations

"There are very, very few from whom we get that higher, deeper, broader
help which it is the prerogative of true excellence in judgment to
bestow: help to discern, through the haste and insistence of the
present, what is its real meaning and its just demand; help to give due
weight to what is reasonable, however unreasonably it may be stated or
defended; help to reverence alike the sacredness of a great cause and
the sacredness of each individual life, to adjust the claims of general
rules and special equity; help to carry with one conscientiously, on the
journey towards decision, all the various thoughts that ought to tell
upon the issue; help to keep consistency from hardening to obstinacy,
and common sense from sinking into time-serving; help to think out one's
duty as in a still, pure air, sensitive to all true signs and voices of
this world, and yet unshaken by its storms."

                   _Studies in the Christian Character_, Bishop PAGET.


Sound Judgment


JUNE 21

"We are all inclined to judge of others as we find them. Our estimate of
a character always depends much on the manner in which the character
affects our own interests and passions. We find it difficult to think
well of those by whom we are thwarted or depressed, and we are ready to
admit every excuse for the vices of those who are useful or agreeable to
us."

                                                             MACAULAY.

"To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just, and therefore to
be impartial,--more exactly, to be disinterested,--more exactly still,
to be impersonal."

                                                    _Amiel's Journal._

"Of all human faculties there is none which more enriches our lives than
a sound moral judgment. Genius is rarer and more wonderful. But this
surpasses even genius in the fact that it is not only in itself a
virtue, but the fruitful mother of virtues. It is as Aristotle said,
'Given a sound judgment and all the virtues will follow in its train.'

       *       *       *       *       *

"If the moral judgment is to be sound it must presuppose character,
faculty to deliberate, and enlightenment."

                         _The Making of Character_, Professor MACCUNN.


Sound Judgment


JUNE 22

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Character and conduct : $b A book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages

Character and conduct : $b A book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages

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