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?
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first_x000D_ century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides_x000D_ telescopes are unnatural.
As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.
Much like a subtle spider which doth sit_x000D_ _x000D_ In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide;_x000D_ _x000D_ If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,_x000D_ _x000D_ She feels it instantly on every side.
When superior people hear of the Way, they carry it out with diligence. When middling people hear of the Way, it sometimes seems to be there, sometimes not. When lesser people hear of the Way, they ridicule it greatly. If they didn't laugh at it, it wouldn't be the Way.
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