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Everyone Who Comes Within The Reach Of Your Knowledge Is, As It Were, On Trial In Your Mind. It Is Easy To Be An Unjust, Ignorant, And Even A Merciless Judge. The Real Character Of The Actions Of Others Depends In Great Measure On The Motives That Prompt Them, And These Motives Are Unknown To You.

One Way Of Getting Along With People Is The Ability To Give In. Strength Of Character Means The Ability To Give In To Others From Motives Of Love, Kindness, And Humility, And To Do So Gracefully, When No Sin Is Involved. It Also Means The Ability To Stand On Principle, And Not To Give In, When Sin Is Involved.

Irritability Is Immaturity Of Character. If You Are Subject To Being Cross And Unpleasant With Others For No Apparent Reason, You Need To Come Face-to-face With The Fact That You Are Thinking Too Much Of Yourself. After All, Your Feelings Are Not The Most Important Thing In This World.

If, When You Charged A Person With His Faults, You Credited Him With His Virtues Too, You Would Probably Like Everybody.

The Practice Of Patience Toward One Another, The Overlooking Of One Another's Defects, And The Bearing Of One Another's Burdens Is The Most Elementary Condition Of All Human And Social Activity In The Family, In The Professions, And In Society.