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Thought For the Day: It Is Better To Lock Up Your Heart Than Fall In Love With Someone Who Doesn’t Know How Much They Mean
“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
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First Principles: Where There Is No Religion, Government Becomes A Hellish Anarchy Until Religion Returns
“Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.” – Daniel Morgan
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Happy Canada Day!!
To my neighbors to the North and the one always on my mind and in my heart! Happy Canada Day!! So, what exactly is Canada Day about? I’m very glad you asked. Formerly known as Dominion Day, Canada Day … Continue reading
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First Principles: National and Individual Happiness Comes From Love of Liberty; Respect For Laws; Habits of Industry; and Practice of Moral and Religious Obligations
“Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (1789)
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Thought For the Day: Forgiveness Is A Cancelled Note Never To Be Shown Against the Forgiven
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against … Continue reading
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Tagged Burned, Cancelled Note, Forget, Forgive, Henry Ward Beecher, Never, Say, Shown, Thought For the Day, Torn
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Things We’ve Said
Woke up this morning, kicking myself hard. Nuff said about that other than… Things We’ve Said by Michael Romani Teared face looks in the mirror Trapped disgrace lived out in error Struggling past feeble lines of poetry That still vivid … Continue reading
First Principles: Nothing Impels Regard of Constituents As the Certainty of Participating In Their Burdens
“Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interests of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.” – George Mason … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Where the Light Is Brightest, the Shadows Are Deepest
“Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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