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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Life of Dr. Donne – Izaak Walton
Izaak Walton is best known as the author of The Compleat Angler. He also wrote a series of short biographies. These have been established as a collection called Walton’s Lives. Among these is The Life of Dr. Donne. An interesting aspect about his … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, Harvard Classics, Izaak Walton, Poet, Poetry, Prose, Study, The Life of Dr. Donne
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Time Spent On the Harvard Classics: Of Agriculture – Abraham Cowley
“We may talk what we please,” he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Cowley, Essay, Harvard Classics, Literature, Of Agriculture, Poet, Western Civilization
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Pain Is To Love In Vain
“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley
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Tagged Abraham Crowley, English, Love, Pain, Poet, Thought For the Day, Unrequitted
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: A Blot in the ’Scutcheon – Robert Browning
Robert Browning’s story is one of a journey from success to near obscurity to success again. From this a lesson may be drawn. Never give up, never surrender. There is another lesson to which so many successful persons teach us. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Blot In the 'Scutcheon, Character, Drama, Harvard Classics, Irony, Monologue, Playwright, Poet, Robert Browning
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Lensed Path of Clarity
Lensed Path of Clarity by Michael Romani There is a path from the beginning A wonderment that is never ending From the pain of scale to fenestration Laying bare our deepest penetration It’s a creation of fine majesty Dressed up … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible Study Tools, Clarity, Imagery, Lense, Path, Photographer, Photos, Poet, Simplicity
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Thought For the Day: It Is Okay To Contradict Oneself
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman Whitman’s ‘Song of Oneself’ can be found here to read in its entirety: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/song.htm Human beings are complex. Even the … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Complexity, Contradictions, Multitudes, Oneself, Poet, Poetry, Song of Oneself, Walt Whitman
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Memories Along One Year’s Journey
Memories Along One Year’s Journey by Michael Romani Before there was a known you I spent my time floating about Never knowing quite what to do A lot I did caused a lot of doubt Mostly, I wanted to be … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Don’t Wait For the Approval of All
“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till al commend.” – Alexander Pope
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Approval, Don't Wait, Poet, Thought For the Day, True Merit
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Thought for the Day: Feeling Safe
Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaff, Comfort, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Faithful, Feeling Safe, Grain, Kindness, Novelist, Poet
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Thought of the Day: History & Geography
History is all explained by geography. -Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (24 Apr 1905-1989) In coming to a more full understanding of what a particular person thought, it is useful to know a little about them. It sets the … Continue reading
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Tagged All the King's Men, Geography, Heritage, History, Poet, Robert Penn Warren
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