Tag: John Witherspoon
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Duty Requires Community
Rights and obligations are correlative terms. Whatever others have a just right or title to claim from me, that is my duty, or what I am obliged to do...
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Realistic Gratitude
To show real gratitude is to recognize “that we are bound in duty” to respond to our moral sense. Growing up, I never liked the idea of gratitude....
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On True Contentment
…do as much as you can to deserve praise, and yet avoid as much as possible the hearing of it. - John Witherspoon I used to think of contentment as...
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