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First Principles: There Is No Greater Mistake Than Doing Nothing Because Only Little Could Be Done
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” – Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (12 Jan 1729-1797)
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Tagged Edmund Burke, Evil, First Principles, Good Men, Great, He, Little, Mistake, Nobody, Nothing, Triumph
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Kid Lost In Story
What’s the difference between a kid at play and an artist lost in art? Give up? Maybe me too…. Kid Lost In Story by Michael Romani Hand sketched And mentally stretched The artist knows her caper Put down as it … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist, Awkward, Belogn, Better, Blocks, Burn, Caper, Children, Construct, Energy, Escstacy, Fantasy, Flow, Glory, Grow, Instruct, Kid, Learn, Lost, Meant, Paper, Percussion, Photograph, Pieces, Playground, Poem, Poetry, Rocks, Sculpture, Sketch, Smile, Story, Stretch, Understood, World, Wrong
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A Victorian Legacy
Have you ever read all of the Dickens works? I know most of us are familiar with A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and perhaps a few more. But, what a time and age to live through with all of its … Continue reading
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Tagged Carriage, Christmas Carol, Christmas Eve, Circumspect, City, Cold, Contempt, David Copperfield, Death, Demand, Dickens, Diminish, Eager, Empty, Heart, Hearth, Home, House, Hunger, Joy, Legacy, Library, Lost, Love, Mirth, Neglect, Orphan, Penny, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Poverty, Prevail, Respect, Scrooge, Snow, Society, Soul, Squalor, Travail, Two, Victorian, Winter
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Thought For the Day: Praise God That Believing Souls Give Light In Darkness, Comfort In Despair
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.” – William Shakespeare
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Tagged Believe, Comfort, Darkness, Despair, God, Light, Praise, Soul, Thought For the Day, William Shakespeare
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Evidence, Fact, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passion, Sttae, Stubborn, Things, Wish
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Finished Ideas
To design for toying or for play allows the imagination to stray. Does it not? Finished Ideas by Michael Romani Finished ideas Have no place In the imagination All idylls To embrace With our fascination The only limitation Is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstraction, Circumstance, Design, Distraction, Elimination, Embrace, Fascination, Finish, Heart, Idea, Idyll, Imagination, Limitation, Object, Photograph, Place, Play, Poem, Poetry, Start, Then, Things, Toy, Way, When
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First Principles: We All Agree In the Obligation of the Moral Principles of Jesus and Nowhere Will They Be found Delivered In Greater Purity Than In His Discourses
“We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and Nowhere Will They Be Found Delivered In Greater Purity Than In His Discourses.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Agree, Discourses, First Principles, Found, Jesus, Moral, Obligation, Principles, Pure, Thomas Jefferson, We
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Thought For the Day: An Armed Society Is A Polite Society
“An armed society is a polite society.” – Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
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Tagged Acts, Armed, Back Up, Good, Life, manners, Polite, Robert A Heinlein, Society, Thought For the Day
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Counting Blessings
Based in part on Ephesians 1:3 – Counting Blessings by Michael Romani As this new year has begun My eyes focus clearly on the One The One who is all knowing And whose love is ever flowing The ways of … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Beatitudes, Bless, Blessing, Bondage, Born, Cast, Children, Christ, Contemplation, Count, Debt, Desire, Destination, Earth, Ephesians, Eyes, Flow, Focus, Forgive, Foundation, Future, God, Grace, He, Heaven, Invite, Kept, Kingdom, Know, Love, Material Things, New Year, One, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Promise, Prophecy, Purpose, Redemption, Restore, Riches, Salvation, Secure, Sin, Spirtual, Stars
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In Remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
May each of the readers of Aloha Promises Forever have a blessed day of service and communion on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 20, 2020. May we always join together with such clarity! “I have a dream that … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Character, Children, Clarity, Color, Communion, Content, Darkness, Division, Dream, Equal, Great Nation, Hate, January 20 2020, Light, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Nation, Self-Evident, Service, Skin, Thought For the Day, True, True Meaning, Truths, Unity
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