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First Principles: Let Your Heart Feel For the Afflictions and Distresses of Every One
“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow’s mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Charity, Deserving, Distress, Estimation, Feel, First Principles, George Washington, Hand, Heart, Inquiry, Proportion, Purse, Suffer, Widow's Mite
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A Humble Servant’s Inquiry
A Humble Servant’s Inquiryby Michael DoyleIs it rebellious to question?I ask this in humblest confessionWe wish only that those we loveMight escape a little longer from heaven aboveWhile others wish for that deathThrough the struggle of wounded breathA second prayer … Continue reading
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Tagged Become, Blemish, Children, Confession, Conquest, Death, Eternity, God, Heaven Above, Holy Rain, Humble Servant, Inquiry, Life's Journey, Love, Merciful End, Mirror, Noble Quest, Paid In Full, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Question, Rebel, Redeem, Rest, Second Prayer, Servant's Request, Struggle, Test, Wish, Wounded Breath, Younger Self
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First Principles: It Is Error Only, and Not Truth, That Shrinks From Inquiry
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” – Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (9 Feb 1737-1809)
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Tagged Error, First Principles, Inquiry, Only, Shrink, Thomas Paine, Truth
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First Principles: May We Ever Endeavor To Be Friends Despite Our Differences
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
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Tagged Alienation, Difference, First Principles, Friendship, Inquiry, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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First Principles: Science Opens Eyes To Truth
“All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Inquiry, Investigation, Rights of Man, Science, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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