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Thought For the Day: On Each Part of the Human Race Is Laid the Duty To Keep Alight Its Own Lamp of Mind As Its Part In the Illumination of the World
“On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people is to deprive it of its rightful place in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alight, Break, Deprive, Duty, Each Race, Illumination, Lamp, Mind, People, Place, Rabindranath Tagore, Rightful, Thought For the Day, World, World Festival
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Thought For the Day: We Have To Move Forward and Get People Back To Some Sense of Normalcy
“We don’t have a choice. We have to move forward and get people back to some sense of normalcy.” – Dan Crenshaw To live in fear, boxed in without hope, without pursuing our dreams and loves and all the goodness … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Dan Crenshaw, Move Forward, Normalcy, People, Sense, Thought For the Day, We
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To Become A Knight
To be a knight is to be a servant for the country and its people. To Become A Knight by Michael Doyle The darkness is coming There’s no use in running Ruthlessly conquering as it comes It brings us to … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Awaken, Become, Blame, Boy, Brave, Burn, Call, Can, Come, Conquer, Consign, Country, Crush, Cunning, Darkness, Day, Destruction, Devour, Do, Eyes, Far, Fate, Fight, Fire, Flame, Found, Ground, Heart, Heed, Hero, Hold, Hour, Instincts, Knees, Knight, Knighthood, Knock, Learn, Lesson, Lust, Martial Styles, Mind, Need, Noble, Numb, Pass, People, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prepare, Prophecy, Protector, Rider, Role, Run, Savage, See, Servant, Servant of God, Sign, Soul, Spread, Start, Straight, Surplus, Survive, Take, Trial, True, Unholy, Warrior, Way, Weak, Will, Word, World, Zero
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First Principles: No People Will Tamely Surrender Their Liberties…When Knowledge Is Diffused and Virtue Preserved
“Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, First Principles, Inculcated, James Warren, Knowledge, Liberty, Minds, Moral Sense, People, Principles of Virtue, Public, Purpose, Reality, Samuel Adams, Surrender, Vice, Virtue, Wise
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Thought For the Day: It Is Our Nature To Conform Which Is Born From Our Requirement of Self-Approval
“It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many people can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Tagged Conform, Force, Inborn, Mark Twain, Nature, People, Requirement, Resist, Seat, Self-Approval, Success, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: There Is Nothing More Truly Artistic Than To Love People
“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890) There’s an earful, right? 😉
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Tagged Artistic, Love, Nothing, People, Thought For the Day, True, Vincent van Gogh
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Thought For the Day: Opportunity Is Missed By Most People Because It Is Dressed In Overalls and Looks Like Work
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison It’s how it has been. It’s how always will be. The farmer knows this. The inventor knows this. The entrepreneur knows this. … Continue reading
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Tagged Dress, Miss, Opportunity, Overalls, People, Thomas A Edison, Thought For the Day, Work
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First Principles: The Ordaining of Laws In Favor of One Part of the Nation, To the Prejudice and Oppression of Another, Is Certainly the Most Erroneous Policy
“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Animosity, Another, Benjamin Franklin, Between, Dispensation, Equal, Favor, First Principles, History, Instance, Jealous, Law, Measures, Oppression, Ordain, People, Prejudice, Privileges, Protection, Rights, Ruin, State, Weaken, Whole
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Thought For the Day: To Be Reliable, Full of Love, True In Affection, Predictable, Grateful and Loyal Are Difficult Standards For People To Live By
“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.” – Alfred Armand Montapert
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Tagged Action, Affection, Alfred Armand Montpert, Animals, Difficult, Full, Grateful, Live Up To, Love, Loyal, People, Predictable, Reliable, Standards, Thought For the Day, True
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First Principles: There Is No Government Capable of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality and Religion
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Avarice, Constitution, Contend, Cord, First Principles, Gallantry, Government, Human, Inadequate, John Adams, Moral, Morality, Net, Other, Passion, People, Power, Religion, Religious, Revenge, Whale
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