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Tag Archives: Literature
Some Times We Can Wait No Longer
Some Times We Can Wait No Longerby Michael DoyleSocrates and Jesus took their last breathsAs each of these were put to their deathsAccused and tried for treason and blasphemyAnd in corrupting the young by truth’s divinityThe noble search and allegiance … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Allegiance, Allow Life, Appreciate, Beauty, Beyond Compare, Beyond Our Control, Blasphemy, Born, Burn, Call, Chain, Commiseration, Complication, Consolation, Corrupt, Curing, Dedication, Derive, Divine Comedy, Divinity, Document, Emperor, Enduring, Evil, Evil Intent, Explanation, Faithful, Fame and Fortune, Fate, Freed Thoughts, Freedoms, Gained Victory, Gifts, Gives and Takes, God's Instruments, Good, Happiness, Harsh, Hatred, Heaven, History, Holy and Good, Humanity, Imprisoned, Instrument, Jesus, Justice, Know, Last Breath, Laughter, Led, Library, Life, Literature, Live, Live On, Lose Charm, Loss, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Mean, Mind, Misery, Must, No Longer, Noble, Nothing, Others, Outside Agitator, Overome, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power of Belief, Providence, Put to Death, Real Form, Respond, Returning Good for Evil, Reveal, Rhapsody, Search, Second Guess, Segregation, Sermons, Shackled Will, Slander, Socrates, Some Times We Wait No Longer, Sung, Tatter, Theta, Times, Treason, Trouble, Trust, Truth, Understood, Unwise, Venerate, Wait, Wicked Consolation, World, Wrong, Young
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Can Cure the Itch of Literature But the Scratching of A Pen
“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.” – Samuel Lover, songwriter, composer, novelist, and artist (24 Feb 1797-1868) And that precisely will fall more into place for … Continue reading
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Tagged Cure, Itch, Literature, Mankind, Pen, Samuel Lover, Scratch, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Cures the Itch of Literature But the Scratching of A Pen
“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.” -Samuel Lover, songwriter, composer, novelist, and artist (24 Feb 1797-1868)
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Tagged Cure, Itch, Literature, Man, Pen, Samuel Lover, Scratch, Thought For the Day
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Misunderstanding Of A Little House
There is a massive campaign to distort historical reality. It seemingly stops at nothing to turn history on its head to achieve this moment’s agenda. I believe it cannot be more wrong. Where possible I attempt to reasonably act against … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absurd, Agenda, Belong, Catchphrases, Challenge, Distortion, Erase, Gain, Grievance, Heartbreak, Hero, Historical Reality, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Imposition, Indians, Intrusion, Laura Ingalls, Learn, Lessons, Literature, Little House On the Prairie, Manifest Destiny, Mistakes, Misunderstanding, Morals, Osage, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Respect, Tarnished, Villian
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Thought For the Day: Re-Reading Literary Classics Allows A Person To See More Of Themselves Than Before
“When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before”. – Clifton Fadiman, editor and critic (15 May 1904-1999)
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Tagged Books, Classics, Clifton Fadiman, Literature, Re-Read, Read, Revealing, Self, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Poetry of William Blake
Born on November 28, 1757, William Blake spent his life as a poet, painter and printmaker before passing on August 12, 1827. Blake has long been considered a seminal figure in the history of modern English poetry and in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvard Classics, Individualism, Literature, Litographs, Poetry, Romantic Period, Spiritual, William Blake
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First Principles – Our Children Should Be Taught Our History
“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse … Continue reading
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Tagged Beliefs, Books, Children, Country, Education, Edudcation of Youth In America, First Principles, History, Literature, Noah Webster, Patriotism
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