Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that acts of kindness or generosity will lead to greater returns over time through the principle of reciprocity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects on the idea that giving, whether in the form of kindness, compassion, or other virtuous actions, creates a debt that the universe or others ultimately repays. He asserts that the longer one waits for this repayment, the more substantial the return will be, highlighting the universal law of reciprocity and the benefits of delayed gratification in moral and ethical behaviors.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the power of giving back to the community.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.
People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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