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Thought For the Day: The Wisest Man Is He Who Does Not Fancy That He Is So At All
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” – Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711), in Satires, also known as Satire 4 (1716) The most authentic wisdom is humility, which recognizes … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Best Path, Blinding Factor, Educate, Fancy, First Step, Grow, Healthy Skepticism, Humility, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learn, Limitation, Man, New Experience, Question Authority, Satire 4, self-improvement, Social Media, Socratic Paradox, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Wisdom, Wise
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Thought For the Day: It Is A Habit of Mankind To Entrust To Careless Hope What They Long For, and To Use Sovereign Reason To Thrust Aside What They Do Not Fancy
“For it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy.” – Thucydides (c.455-c.400 BC)
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Tagged Careless Hope, Entrust, Fancy, Habit, Long For, Mankind, Sovereign Reason, Thought For the Day, Thrust Aside, Thucydides
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Thought For the Day: The Wisest Man Is He Who Does Not Fancy That He Is So At All
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. “– Nicolas Boileau-despreaux, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711)
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Tagged All, Does Not, Fancy, Man, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Thought For the Day, Wise
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On Habits of Soap, Water and Masks
My youngest princess is fond of teasing the truth that we are living history. What a memory this all will be one day won’t it? They’ll be able to say they lived through a global crisis and remember things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcohol, Antibody, Block, Car, Common Sense, Crowns, Daughters, Destructive, Disabuse, Disrupt, Embrace, Epidemiology, Face, Fancy, Father, Global Crisis, Habit, Learn, Live, Living History, Manipulate, Mask, Me and You, Memory, New Norm, Notion, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Protect, Protein, Safe and Sane, Scientists, Smile, Soap, Soap and Water, Strategy, Trials, Used, Viral, Virus, Wash Our Hands, Water
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The Price of Magic
Day 26 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2019 is day to write a poem that uses repetition as it’s device. I think maybe that’s something that I don’t do a lot of in my writing. The leaders of this poetry session declare this … Continue reading
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Tagged Base Need, Cast, Cocktail, Complex, Dash, Desire, Device, Dexterity, Die, Double Handed, Essence, Fancy, Fleet, Governance, Heart, Human, Incantation, Interaction, Kick, Last, Life, Magic, Na/GloPoWriMo, Parlance, Parliment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price, Recitation, Repeat, Repetition, Satisfication, Seat, Serial, Time, Trite, Trivial, True Romance, Utterance, Word
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Word Prompt – Pursuit
There’s that ole stray cat up on the garden wall Without a care in the world that she’ll fall In full pursuit, she chases dandelions in the wind All day and night without pause, without end Not a care in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cat, Catch and Release, Chase, Daily Prompt, Dandelions, Fancy, Kitty, Meal, Meow, Path, Pause, Paws, Prey, Puff, Pursuit, Real, Snack, Trace, Wind
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