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First Principles: A Morsel of Genuine History Is A Thing So Rare As To Be Always Valuable
“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.” – Thomas Jefferson (1817)
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Thought For the Day: Only Art Penetrates What Pride, Passion, Intelligence and Habit Erect On All Sides – the Seeming Realities of This World
“Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit erect on all sides – the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, … Continue reading
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A Question of Theology
A Question of Theologyby Michael DoyleIt’s an interesting tug-of-warOne in which we watch the scoreWhy didn’t the Archangel slay the Devil?Instead, God chose to keep things more levelThe question isn’t just one of simple theologyBut crucial in understanding God’s divinityGod’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Atrocities, Brim Stone, Choice, Cities, Contend, Crucial, Defense, Devil, Divinity, End, End Times, Faith, Fallen Angels, Fight, Genuine, God, Heaven, Hell, Kingdom, Level, Lucifer, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Price, Promise, Question, Score, Soul, Theology, Tug-of-War, Vanquish, Voice, Wait, Wisdom
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First Principles: The More Permanent and Genuine Happiness Is To Be Found In the Sequestered Walks of Connubial Life Than In the Giddy Rounds of Promiscuous Pleasure
“More permanent and genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.” – George Washington, letter to the Marquis de la Rourie, 1786
Thought For the Day: The Closest Thing To A Genuine Panacea Known To Medical Science Is Work
“The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic — in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea — known to medical science is work.” – Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (15 Apr 1920-2012) … Continue reading
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First Principles: There Exists In the Economy and Course of Nature, An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness
“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Duty, Economy, Exist, Felicity, First Principles, Genuine, George Washington, Happiness, Honest, Indissoluble, Magnanimous, Maxim, Nature, Policy, Prosperity, Public, Reward, Union, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: Genuine Morality Is Preserved Only In the School of Adversity
“It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.” – Friedrich Schiller
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Way of Things
Life and love are best lived in giving and letting go of fear. Way of Things by Michael Romani Every problems asks for solution Said the keeper of genuine seeking The passage of light in contribution Pardoned by the innocent … Continue reading
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