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First Principles: Let Us Trust In God Rather Than Put Confidence In Princes
“To submit and resign their charter would be inconsistent with the main end of their fathers’ coming to New England…. [Although resistance would provoke] great sufferings, [it was] better to suffer than sin. Let them trust in the God of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charter, Confidence, First Principles, God of Their Fathers, Good Cause, Increase Mather, Mankind, New England, Prince, Provoke, Resign, Resist, Sin, Suffer, Trust, Will, Will of God
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First Principles: God’s Law Is Binding On All of Mankind At All Times
“The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.” – Rufus King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_King
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First Principles: Our Republic Is Intended Give Mankind Civil and Religious Liberty
“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” – Samuel Adams, Speech at the State House, … Continue reading
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Tagged Asylum, Civil, Contest, Countrymen, Courage, Earth, First Principles, Free, Liberty, Mankind, Religious, Samuel Adams
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First Principles: Freedom Requires Those Willing to Undergo the Rigors of Supporting It
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, September 11, 1777
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Thought For the Day: Admitting You Were Wrong Only Says You Are Wiser Than Yesterday
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope, poet (21 May 1688-1744
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Non-Binary Paradise Revealed
Have you ever wondered about Satan’s role as God’s prosecutor and role as sinful man’s adversary? John Milton did. At times, I find that interesting to look at as well. Non-Binary Paradise Revealed by Michael Romani Consider if you might … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversary, Beauty, Contrast, Darkness, Degree of Separation, Dissonance, God, Heaven, Hell, Humanity, John Milton, Line, Mankind, Narrow, Noble, Non-Binary, Perception, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Prosecutor, Revelation, Satan, Soul, Story, Strict, Unfold
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First Principles: Mankind Is Born Free, Yet, Everywhere Is In Chains
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” – Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)
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Thought For the Day: Poetry Is A Light By Which We See Life
“In the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see–and what we see is life.” – Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (24 Apr 1905-1989)
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Tagged Capacity, Life, Light, Mankind, Meaning, Myth, Poem, Robert Penn Warren, See, Thing, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Bulk of Mankind Have In Turn Been the Prey of Ambition
“The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.” – Mercy Otis Warren
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