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Monthly Archives: November 2018
American Lion: Speaker of Truth
Frederick Douglass was a Republican. I love when I read the Left try to work its way around that with lies and pretense and then try to make the case anything but than it was. The Republicans formed in … Continue reading
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Tagged American, American History, American Lion, Believer, Chains, Change, Color, Confederacy, Contradiction, Craftwork, Democrats, Derision, Division, Equality, Frederick Douglass, Freedom, Hero, Humanity, Identity, Jim Crow, Liberty, Life, Marxist, Mock, Mortal Sin, Nation, Nuances, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Republican, Reverse Discrimination, Skin Color, Speak, Tales, Tension, Truth
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First Principles: Love of Truth and Veneration of Virtue Are the Sparks of Discernment of Right and Wrong and True and False
“A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what … Continue reading
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Tagged Difference, False, First Principles, John Adams, Latent Spark, Love of Truth, Mankind, Passions, Principle, Right, True, Understand, Veneration of Virtue, Vice, Virtue, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Worrying Doesn’t Stop the Bad, But, It Does Ruin the Good
“Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening; it just stops you from enjoying the good.” – Charlie Brown
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Tagged Bad Stuff, Charlie Brown, Enjoy, Good, Happen, Stop, Thought For the Day, Worry
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First Principles: Let Us Rely On the Goodness of Our Causes and the Aid of God
“Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.” – George Washington, in his General Orders (1776) … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Aid, America, Enourage, First Principles, George Washington, Goodness of the Cause, Noble, Rely, Supreme Being, Victory
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Thought For the Day: Treat People As If They Are What The Should Be and Help Them Become All They Capable of Being
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Tagged Being, Capable, Help, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ought To Be, People, Thought For the Day, Treat
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Stranger To Myself
Little something picked up on watching a horror show and thinking. I’m often guilty of thinking way too much. 😉 Stranger To Myself by Michael Romani Purest instincts undone A stranger to myself As divorced from me as from anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Adieu, Alone, Annihilation, Cast Down, Crack, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Distant, Doubt, Eternal, Evil, Face, Ghost, Glass, Gone, Goodbye, Hope, Hound of God, Inside, Instinct, Left, Life, Man In the Mirror, Me, Mirror, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Self, Shelf, Strain, Stranger, Time, Whisper
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Thanks In Everything
There are times when it seems awfully hard to find gratitude for the things and situations God puts into our lives. Here’s a little something on that topic and to make up for not having my mid-week Christian poem yesterday. … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Bible, Bliss, Christian, Circumstance, Commandment, Commission, Contemplation, Cope, Dark Threads, Days, Dependent, Fear, Glory, God, Gratitude, Happenstance, Hear, Hesitation, Obey, Peace, Persevere, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Question, Release, Sovereign, Spirit, Stillness, Story, Submission, Thankful, Understand, Unfolding Revelation, Woven
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Thought For the Day: Great Men Cultivate Love Only Little Men Cherish Hatred
“I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.” – Booker T Washington
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Tagged Booker T Washington, Cherish, Cultivate, Great Men, Hatred, Little Men, Love, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists of Being Honest and Doing Your Duty
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Art of Government, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Humanity, Learn, Read, Right, Think, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: Love Is The Reason We Wake, Walk and Have Hope
“I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.” – Jerry Lewis
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Tagged Hope, Jerry Lewis, Love, Thought For the Day, Wake, Walk
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 