Defining Honor

Title: Defining Honor
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1338 | Pages: 5.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Defining Honor

If I were to ask half a dozen people at random to tell me what they meant by the word "honor," I think that I would probably receive very different answers. One of the reasons for this is that it often means different things in the minds of different people. For instance, we say that it was a great honor for Jim Smith to be elected captain of the football team; and then, on the …showed first 75 words of 1338 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1338 total…try to practice what we teach and then teach it with a humble appreciation of the beauty or use of the subject, and without any vanity or conceit. There is no merit, but only privilege, -- so great that it is difficult to estimate, -- in teaching and being taught to understand and live by the deep and tested truths of life; and the more we learn, from obeying them, the more humbly grateful we shall be.

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