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Thought For the Day: ‘The Time Has Come, ‘ the Walrus Said, ‘To Talk of Many Things: of Shoes and Ships – and Sailing Wax – of Cabbages and Kings
‘The time has come,’ the walrus said, ‘to talk of many things: of shoes and ships – and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.’ – Lewis Carroll
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Tagged Cabbages, Kings, Lewis Carroll, Sailing Wax, Ships, Shoe, Talk, The Time, The Walrus, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Governments Do Better Without Kings and Nobles Than With Them
“We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion Flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid of Government, Better, First Princiiples, Flourish, Government, James Madison, Kings, Merit, Nobles, Purit, Religion
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Thought For the Day: Yesterday We Obeyed Kings and Bent Our Necks Before Emperors. But Today We Kneel Only To Truth, Follow Only Beauty, and Obey Only Love
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” – Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (6 Jan 1883-1931)
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Tagged Beauty, Emperor, Follow, Kahlil Gibran, Kings, Kneel, Love, Necks, Obey, Thought For the Day, Today, Truth, Yesterday
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Uthred of Bamburgh
Uthred of Bamburghby Michael DoyleThe blood runs deepAs Saxon mothers weepSatan has crossed the landsUnder blood thirst’s craven commandVahalla’s gates open wideWatching as seven kings diedThe Valkyries accept the deathAs Uthred draws his last breathA hero though rarely namedIf England … Continue reading
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Tagged Betrayals, Blame, Blood, Breath, Burn, Burning Hearts, Cold, Craven, Death, Deep, England, Fall, Family Ties, Fiction, Flames, Flicker, Halls, Hero, History, Kings, Lands, Learn, Lost, Mytery, Oath, Poetry and Poems, Real Man, Sacred, Satan, Saxon, Seven, Sir Lancelot, Sky, Thirst, Uthred of Bamburgh, Vahalla, Valykyries, Weep, Wide, Winter, Word
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Thought For the Day: Kings Had Always Been Involving and Impoverishing Their People In Wars, Pretending Generally, If Not Always, That the Good of the People Was the Object
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, General, Good, Impoverish, Involve, Kings, Object, People, Pretend, The People, Thought For the Day, Wars
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A Tale of Two Kings
A Tale of Two Kingsby Michael DoyleWatching as our days unfoldInto the stories yet untoldLife is a gift for us to liveIn taking less than we have to giveLet’s not let the Grinch steal ChristmasNo snarling sneer will stop this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Baby, Best, Cheer, Christmas, Christmas Story, Confess, Death, Deception, Egypt, Evil, Fail, Fate, Fear, Forfeit, Gift, Gift of Gab, Give, Glory, God, Gold, Grinch, Hatred, Herod the Great, History, Impression, Insecurity, Joy, King of the Jews, Kingdom, Kings, Life, Live, Mary, Mass, Mirage, Myrrh, narcissistic, Nothing, Obsession, Poetry and Poems, Posession, Power, Preoccupation, Prestige, Prevail, Pride, Riches, Rule, Salvation, Savior, Separation, Serve, Sigh, Sin, Sneer, Soul, Strife, Surrender, Taking Less, Tale, Test, The Magi, Two, Tyranny, Unfold, Untold, Violence, Watch, Ways
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First Principles: Kings or Parliaments Could Not Give the Rights Essential To Happiness…We Claim Them From A Higher Source – From the King of Kings and Lord of All the Earth
“Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness… We claim them from a higher source — from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. … Continue reading
First Principles: Sometimes It Is Said That Man Cannot Be Trusted With Government of Himself. Can He, Then, Be Trusted With the Government of Others?
“Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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