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Tag Archives: Mind
First Principles: Every Effort Should Be Made To Encourage and Exalt the Children To Become Their Best Potential
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Activity, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Elevate, Exalt, First Principles, Grovel, Industry, Infancy, John Adams, Lives, Mind
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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion Formed In the Mind of Distrust
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Born, Contagious, Distrust, First Principles, Gloss, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Question
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The Dreams We Need
As a society, we spend too much time trying to stifle the dreams of both children and the inner most child in all of us. We misplace our values, thinking that dreams are merely wants. We dream to dream. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Agreed, Awake, Ballet Slippers, Bliss, Care, Child, Child's Heart, Children, Dance, Dreams, Edge, Fabric, Find, Give, Glow, Happy, Kiss, Laugh, Light, Light Show, Love, Memory, Mind, Money, Moonbeam, Music, Need, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Razzle Dazzle, Safe, Serenade, Share, Sleep, Smile, Society, Style, Surprise, Take, Universe, Verse, Vision, Waking Moment, Wish
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First Principles: We Should Do All We Can To Elevate Our Children’s Minds and Character
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Courage, Elevate, Excel, First Principles, Industry, John Adams, Mind, Virtue
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First Principles: A General Education of the People Will End Tyranny and Oppression of Mind and Body
“Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged Body, Educate, First Principles, Inform, Liberty, Mind, Oppression, Preservation, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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First Principles: We Must Stand Firm Over Every Form of Tyranny Over the Minds of Mankind
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)
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Tagged Altar, Eternal, First Principles, God, Hostile, Mankind, Mind, Oath, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: Advice Is Like Snow
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. “-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher (21 Oct 1772-1834)
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Tagged Advice, Deeper, Dwell, Fall, Long, Mind, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sink, Snow, Soft, Thought For the Day
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Daily Prompt – Bayou
The whispers only outnumber the will ‘o wisps down in the bayou… Down In the Bayou by Michael Romani Whisper, whisper just loud enough And behind your listening ear It’s that tingle of anticipated fear Like the leaves falling this … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayou, Birthright, Choice, Daily Prompt, Door, Fate, Fear, Full Moon, Halloween, Heart, Mind, Mood, Queen, Whisper, Will 'O Wisp
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On The Importance of Love
Heard a wonderful sermon today based on: 1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV) 13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 13, Assurance, Butterfly, Carry, Deliver, Discern, Eternal, Faith, Father, Forgiveness, Fundamental, God, Heart, Hope, Infernal, Love, Mercy, Mind, Pandora Box, Photograph, Pillar, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Possible, Praise, Probable, Son, Truth, Victory
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First Principles: Reason Is the Guard Against Absurdities
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurd, Faith, First Principles, Guard, Gullibility, Helm, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Thomas Jefferson
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