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First Principles: When All Government Is Drawn To Washington, We Will Be Rendered Powerless To Check Oppression
“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal … Continue reading
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Tagged Center, Checks, Domestic, First Principles, Foreign, Government, Great, Little, Oppressive, Power, Powerless, Thomas Jefferson, Venal, Washington D.C.
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Thought For the Day: Talking Eloquently Is A Great Art, But An Equally Great One Is To Know the Right Moment To Stop
“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Tagged Art, Eloquent, Mozart, Right Moment, Stop, Talk, Thought For the Day, Well
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Have A Blessed Resurrection Sunday
May all readers and their families have a Blessed Resurrection Sunday!
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Tagged Blessing, Easter, Family, Love, Resurrection Sunday, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Our Lord Has Written the Promise of Resurrection, Not In Books Alone, But In Every Leaf In Springtime
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther
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Tagged Books, Leaf, Lord, Martin Luther, Promise, Resurrection, Springtime, Thought For the Day, Written
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First Principles: No Person Shall Be Harmed For Worshipping God In the Manner Most Agreeable To Their Own Conscience
“It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreeable, Conscience, Disturb, Duty, First Principles, God, John Adams, Mankind, Manner, Obstruct, Others, Peace, Profession, Religious Worship, Sentiment, Thoughts On Government, Worship
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A Triolet For Easter
On the twelfth day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020, the optional challenge is to write a triolet. Looking this up here to find out its essential form: https://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Triolet-Poem and in that today is Easter Sunday in my traditions, I wrote this: … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Affection, Doubt, Easter, Engrave, Full, Hearts, Humanity, Inspect, Lord, Na/GloPoWriMo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resurrection, Saved, Sunday, Triolet
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The Floriography of Our Easter Love Renewed
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11, 2020… and hoping each of you is having a blessed Easter eve!! Today’s poem prompt is to write a poem featuring the secret language of flowers, floriography. Given that I have been with my two little girls … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Apostles, Azalea, Bloom, Christ, Desiree, Dignity, Easter, Floriography, Forgiveness, Garden, Heart, Hold, Hope, Jesus, Linger, Love, Loyalty, Mortal Sin, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nosegay, Petals, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Purity, Purple, Queen, Remind, Renew, Repentance, Right, Role, Rose, Self Control, Single, Symbolism, Temperance, Theology, Tulips, Us, Victorian, Virtue, Walk, Womanhood, Words, Wounds
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Thought For the Day: A Problem Is A Chance For You To Do Your Best
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington
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First Principles: Freedom Is A Gift From God and Not To Be Alienated By Mankind and Voluntarily Become A Slave
“If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienate, Fear, First Principles, Fraud, Freedom, Gift, God, Law of Reason, Mankind, Mistake, Natural Rights, Power, Renounce, Rights of the Colonists, Samuel Adams, Slave, Society, Vacate, Voluntarily
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