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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“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 Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Capacity, Children, Courage, Cre, Creep, dd, Eelevate, Excel, Faculty, Family, First Principles, Grovel, Growth, Habitual Contempt, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, John Adams, Life, Lives, Love, Meanness, Minds, Nature, Poetry, Virtue
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First Principles: Liberty Cannot Be Preserved Without A General Knowledge Among the People, Who Have A Right…To Knowledge
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Art Is A Man’s Nature; Nature Is God’s Art
“Art is a man’s nature; nature is God’s art.” – Philip James Bailey
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Tagged Art, God, Man, Nature, Philip James Bailey, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: There Is Always More Goodness In the World Than There Appears To Be, Because Goodness Is of Its Very Nature Modest and Retiring
“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.” -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956)
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Tagged Always, Appear, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Goodness, Modest, Nature, Retiring, Thought For the Day, World
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Thought For the Day: Climate Science Has Become Less About Understanding the Complexities of the World and More About Serving As A Kind of Cassandra
“To put it bluntly, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change.” – Patrick Brown I Left … Continue reading
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Tagged Blunt, Cassandra, Climate Change, Climate Science, Complex, Danger, Nature, Patrick Brown, Public, Science, Serve, The Free Press, Thought For the Day, Understand, Urgent, Warn, World
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Living Days
Living Daysby Michael DoyleThe rock of my foundationDefies natural explanationBut that of the Father’s loveGiven from Heaven aboveMy life is filled with thunderNever pulled down underBut given unfailing graceFaithful in His loving embraceThere is no failing in compassionRain cannot remove … Continue reading
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Tagged Compassion, Defy, Deserve, Down Under, Embrace, Faithful, Father's Love, Foundation, Heaven, Home, Lifee, Living Days, Love, Nature, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pull, Rain, Serve, The Lord, The Rock, Thunder, Trust, Unfailing Grace
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First Principles: There is Nothing More Corrupting, Nothing More Destructive of the Noblest and Finest Feelings of Our Nature, Than the Exercise of Unlimited Power
“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.” – William Henry Harrison
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Tagged Corrupting, Destructive, Exercise, Feelings, Fine, First Principles, Nature, Noble, Nothing, Unlimited Power, William Henry Harrison
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First Principles: This Constitution Is the Most Free One, and By Far the Best, Now Existing On the Earth
“…that the King with and by the authority of parliament, is able to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the crown, and the descent, limitation, inheritance and government thereof” is founded on the principles of liberty and … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, Civil Government, Common Sense, Conssent, Constitution, Dominion, First Principles, Free Man, God, James Otis, King, Laws and Statutes, Legislature, Mankind, Nature, Parliment, Principles of Liberty, Represented, Rights of British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763), Tax, Unlimited Passive Obedience
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First Principles: True Law Is Right Reason In Agreement With Nature; It Is Of Universal Application
“True law is right reason in agreement with Nature; it is of universal application. Unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Tagged Agreement, Averts, Commands, Duty, Everlasting, First Principles, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature, Prohibitions, Right Reason, True Law, Unchanging, Wrongdoing
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