Henry David Thoreau: Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because…
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
In today’s wordsPeople have a strange desire to be good without being good for anything, perhaps because they vaguely think it will pay off for them in the end.
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- Faithfulness is not never failing. It’s getting back up every time you fail so that you never fail, when you fall!
- The true test of faithfulness is not never failing, but being willing to get back up and be better.
- Insignificance BARKS LOUD but delivers little.
- WIN-u make right choices, you are developing faithfulness, which is the core of your personal greatness! God is looking for the faithful. (Prov. 20:6)
- There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
- Now we expect every student who goes out from Tuskegee to be, not the man who tries to see how little he can do, or the average man who proposes to do merely his duty, but the man above the average, who will do more than his duty.