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First Principles: It Is Dearness That Gives Everything Its Value
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.” – Thomas Paine, 1776
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Tagged Cheap, Dearness, Esteem, First Principles, Lightly, Obtain, Thomas Paine, Value
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Thought For the Day: What We Hate, We Graft Onto Our Souls
“In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.” – Mary Renault, novelist (4 Sep 1905-1983)
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Tagged Brood, Graft, Grow, Hatred, Loathe, Love, Mary Renault, Soul, Subject, Thought For the Day
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Ekphrastic Workshop – Sparkle Dim
The Tuesday night short poetry workshop tonight has to do with the Ekphrastic form of deriving a poem based on a work of art including digital art/photographs. From this I came up with the following: Sparkle Dim Ekprhastic by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Blessed, Dance, Dim, Ekprhastic, Free, Glowing, Gratitude, Growing, Karma, Love, Photograph, Platitide, Poem, Poetry, Share, Shatter, Smile, Sparkle, Understand, Workshop
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Legacy Rehashed
Sort of random with a bit of truth in the cervices: Legacy Rehashed by Michael Romani If we could drag the future Out into the past If feelings could somehow nurture All the things that didn’t last If we could … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspersions, Beginning, Blunder, Cervices, Details, Diamonds, Drops, End, Family, Fantasy, Friend, Future, Hand, Harmony, Hope, I, Kiss, Legacy, Love, Nurture, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Rehash, Reply, Rough, Star Crossed, Strife, Tales, Tomorrow, Truth, Unabashed, Wells, Winning, Wonder, You, Youth
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Daily Prompt – New
As old as life sometimes seems It truly is the stuff of dreams Despite moments taken aback It’s not imagination that we lack Still, despite all of our imagination Nothing quite touches fascination Like the new feeling of life born … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Born, Daily Prompt, Dreams, Fascination, Fawns, Imagination, Knew, Life, Love, Moments, Morn, New, Spin, True, Winter
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First Principles: The United States Will Continue Richly Blessed As Long As We Follow God
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Attain, Blessings, Country, First Principles, George Washington, Neglect, Power, Providence
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Thought For the Day: Allowing Small Things To Anger You Indicates the Size of Your Soul
“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris
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Tagged Anger, Indication, Power, Size, Small Things, Sydney J Harris, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Knowledge of This World Begins In Its Details
“Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Change, Circle, Details, Heraclitus, Intelligence, Knowledge, Natural History, Road, Thought For the Day, Truth, Unchangin, Unexpected, World
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First Principles: The Principle of Association Guarantees Everyone the Right To Free Exercise of Industry and the Right To the Fruit Acquired
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate … Continue reading
Daily Prompt – Alarm
It was with some alarm that I Found myself perched in a tree High up in the darkening sky How I got there you wouldn’t believe me I whispered to the resting raven I was feeling more than a bit … Continue reading
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Tagged Alarm, Believe, Craven, Daily Prompt, Edgar Alan Poe, Go, Me, Minute, Perch, Photograph, Quote, Raven, Sky, Tree, Whisper
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