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Monthly Archives: September 2017
First Principles: America’s Youth Must Always Remember Its Noble Inheritance
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Fidelity, First Principles, Heritage, Improved, Inheritance, Joseph Story, Noble, Youth
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Great American Song Book II: More Standards To Live By
American Popular Music Standards are uniquely special and will live on forever in our hearts. This is a further playlist from this genre for your listening pleasure:
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Tagged Great American Songbook, Playlist, Pop Music, Stnardards
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: On The Origin of Species – Darwin
On the Origin of Species also known as On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races In the Struggle For Life and voyages on the HMS Beagle have already been significantly discussed. For now … Continue reading
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Elevate
An En-deering Hillside:
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Tagged Daily Prompt, Deer, Elevate, Hill, Photograph, Up, Wordpress
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First Principles: The First Line of Safety Is People Helping People
“The ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense are, first, a due dependence on the people, secondly, a due responsibility.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788) One need only look at how people of walks in life have come together and helped … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Love of Beauty and Reverence for Tradition Make for the Best of Art
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Classicism, Discipline, Individualism, Kenyon Cox, Rigor, Self Control, Thought For the Day, Tradition
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A Passage For Trumpet
In the continuing effort to keep my promise to my eldest princess, this poem is based on The Twilight Zone, Season 1: Episode 32: https://flic.kr/p/uzJxST A Passage For Trumpet by Michael Romani Somewhere beyond that mystic infinity A trumpet swells out … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Dreams, Gabriel, Heartbreak, Horn, Jazz, Life, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Second Chances, The Twilight Zone, Trumpet
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Letters on the English – Voltaire
Letters On the English or in French Lettres Philosophiques is a series of essays from Voltaire based on his time living in England from 1726 through 1729. These essays were first published in 1733 and are sometimes compared and contrasted with … Continue reading
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Tagged England, Essays, France, Harvard Classics, Letters On the English, Philosophy, Voltaire
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The Prospector
The Prospector by Michael Romani Standing on the edge Of the desert Gone to the point of knowing Nothing but hurt Building life on a prayer Knowing that it is somewhere Refusing to stop dreaming Refusing to stop believing Pushing … Continue reading
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Tagged Courage, Desert, Dignity, Dreams, Gold, Perserverance, Poem, Poetry, Prospector
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Educate
Creeping up slowly, quiet as a mouse And there before my startled eyes Very much to my stunned surprise I saw A Murder At the Old School House
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 