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First Principles: They Who Permit Themselves To Lie Once, Find It Much Easier To Do Until It Becomes Habitual
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Attend, Believe, Easy, First Principles, Habitual, Lie, Lies, Permit, Second, Third, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, World
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Dark Hearted Contemplation
Gossips can be so harsh in the half truths and complete untruths they attempt to spread and the heartbreak they wish to inflict on those who are innocent in any case. This is a poem in response to the misdeeds … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibis, Animosity, Attack, Authority, Awak, Believe, Cheat, Code of Honor, Contemplation, Control, Dark Heart, Dishonest, Empty, End, Eyes, Faith, False Accusation, Faslity, Feeding Frenzy, Gossip, Hard World, Heartbreak, Innocent, Integrity, Island, Jealous, Left Alone, Liar, Lies, Life, Lost, Love, Peace, Petty, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Redemption, Responsible, Right, Rumors, Safety, Sauir, Soul, Stone, Strife, Think, Trouble, True Cause, Truth, Uncertain, Wish, Wonder, Words
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In A Monster’s Waltz
Halloween poem #7 In A Monster’s Waltz by Michael Romani May the lost souls be found No matter how or how unsound Too long happiness has been elusive For those rejected and now reclusive Frankenstein each of us in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Calamity, Castaway, Dance, Dare, Dark, Dignity, Dream, Elusive, Eyes, Frankenstein, Fright, Halloween, Happy, Humanity, Legacy, Lies, Lost Soul, Mephistopheles, Misfortune, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reclusive, Reject, Stormy Night, Waltz
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Thought For the Day: Give Thanks In the Morning For All You Have and If You Find No Reason, the Fault Lies In Yourself
“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in … Continue reading
First Principles: Falseness of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Book of Wisdom, Contempt, Deprave, Disposition, Falsehood, First Chapter, First Principles, Habit, Heart, Honesty, Important, Lies, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Truth, Unshaken, Untruth, Vice
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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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First Principles: The Press Is Impotent When It Abandons Itself To Falsehood
“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805) … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandon, Establish, Falsehood, First Principles, Impotent, Lies, Press, Recall, Restore, Strength, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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Extra Little Something
Isn’t it funny how it’s usually the little things that make up our memories and bring up to the magic that is truly in Christmas? Extra Little Something by Michael Romani It’s there in all the things we take up … Continue reading
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