Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on, — s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad — I’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning [...]
Posts Tagged ‘good intentions’
Conscience
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged good intentions, guilt, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain on 2009-12-11 | 1 Comment »
No Evil Intent
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged evil, good intentions, Thomas Hood on 2009-04-06 | Leave a Comment »
But evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart. – Thomas Hood, “The Lady’s Dream”
Heeding the call to service
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged good intentions, Samuel Beckett on 2009-04-05 | Leave a Comment »
POZZO: Help! … VLADIMIR: Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.) Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were [...]
Rabbits
Posted in Animal Tales, Musings, Rochelle Tales, tagged good intentions, nature, rabbits on 2009-03-22 | Leave a Comment »
The neighborhood where I grew up had no privacy fences. The backyards flowed from one house to the next, with minor interruptions — hedges, gardens, garages, streets, and the occasional picket fence. And the neighborhood children made it all into a single playground. We ranged, perhaps more wildly than our parents would have liked, across [...]


