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First Principles: There Is No Graver Error Than To Rest Our Nation On Favors From Other Nations
“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favors from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 … Continue reading
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Tagged Calculation, Cure, Discard, Error, Expectation, Experience, Favor, First Principles, Foreign Nations, George Washington, Illusion, Pride
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Daily Prompt – Thin
Shooting from the far side I feeling it thin Lost my pride Looking in; looking in All those things that I done Got this rabbit on the run Praying from near side Reeling it in Talking ’bout my pride Looking … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged Cost, Daily Prompt, Debt, Far Side, Guilt, Introspection, Loss, Lost, Poetry, Pride, Rabbit, Run, Thin, Wish
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Thought For the Day: It’s Older Men That Send Younger Men To Fight Wars
“I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Older Men, Pride, Purpose, Thought For the Day, War, Younger Men
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Casting Away Our Sins
Genesis Casting Away Our Sin by Michael Romani The Word of God is for His People All of us who gather in his steeple And so it is that we need again To adhere to remove our sins It doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Casting Away, Children of God, Compromise, Crown, Fulfillment, Grace, Inequity, Living History, Monuments, Pain, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reality, Sins, Steeple, Word of God
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War Drums Beating
War Drums Beating by Michael Romani The war drums are beating There is no more retreating But for you, the battle is over You will be buried in clover Your fight is over my friend Your path has come to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Battle, Cared, Company, Death, End, Friend, God, Great Beyond, Missed, Other Side, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Reliance, Tears, True Born, War Drums, Warrior
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Relocate
False choices lead to a little revved up revocation As humanity processes the eventual need for relocation Choices given voices to the feelings dwelling inside A demonstration of remonstration we can’t easily hide Why do some choose to dwell in … Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Daily Prompt, Distance, Feelings, Heaven, Hell, Intimacy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Relocate, Wordpress
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WordPress – Weekly Challenge – Glow
There’s something special in how you glow It’s a kind of a feeling that grows and grows When you know that true love has found a way To find you more and more in my every day There is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Eternal, Glow, Joy, Know, Look of Love, Pride, True Love, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wordpress
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First Principles: Wise Men Struggle For Liberty
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope and pride. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anguish, First Principles, Hope, Liberty, Patrick Henry, Pride, Salvation, Struggle, Truth
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Wall Or Door?
Wall or Door by Michael Romani Where you see a wall I see a door What you see as closed Can be opened once more Opened by conviction A lock is not a lock without a key Curiosity brings its … Continue reading
