Every day, you have an opportunity to do one of three things when you see a problem or see someone struggling: you can do nothing, you can make things more difficult for them, or you can help out.
John Henry Newman had some ideas about what it meant to be a gentleman in 1854 and they apply to everyone today.
“The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast — all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make everyone at his ease and at home.”
— John Henry Newman, 1854
Related:
The Definition of a Gentleman (
)A Code of Honor for a Dishonorable Age (
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