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Tag Archives: Utopia
Into Something More
Into Something Moreby Michael DoyleStrive and fight for a better lifeFinding believed in utopia was naughtBut disappointment with hints of strifeIdeals purchased with bloodied tears soughtOnly to find these too lacking in the endAnd while life goes on, we cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affliction, Ancient, Beauty, Better Life, Cancer, Change, Comic Opera, Connection, Correction, Darkness, Disappointment, Dripping Poison, End, Faith, Flittering By, Follies, Foreign Shore, Full Circle, Gain, Grasp, Happiness, Hear, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Jaded, Judgment, Lack, Life Goes On, Light, Lives, Mercy, Mirror, Passing By, Penitent, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Poor, Prayers, Prevail, Purity of Reason, Pursuits, Repent, Right, Season, Society, Something More, Sought, Storied Legacy, Strange, Strife, Suffering, Tale, Trend, True, Trust, Utopia, Views, Voices, Yesterday
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First Principles: A Nation Taking the Bible As Their Only Law Would Be Obliged In Conscience To Temperance, Frugality, Industry, Justice, Kindness and Charity Toward Mankind and To Piety
“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Bible, Charity, Conduct, Conscience, First Principles, Frugality, God, Industry, John Adams, Justice, Kindness, Law Book, Love, Mankind, Member, Nation, Paradise, Piety, Precepts, Reverance, Temperance, Utopia
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Conflict Of Civilizations
There is a conflict in the West that draws down deeper than radical Islam versus West. It is Leftism versus Tradition. I think it’s pretty clear which side of this divide I am on. Conflict Of Civilizations by Michael Romani … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged America, Antithesis, Chaste, Christianity, Communism, Contempt, Death, Destruction, Dogma, Economics, Extremism, Faced, Fascism, Freud, Futile, God, Guidance, Happy, Heart and Feelings, Holy, Ideology, Imaginary, Instruction, Judaism, Leftism, Life's Questions, Light, Marxism, Meaning, Perverse, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Poor, Secularism, Sex, Sirens, The Bible, The West, Theology, Thesis, Tradition, Unholy, Universe, Utopia, Wealth, Western Civilization
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: The Life of Thomas More – William Roper
William Roper was an English lawyer and member of Parliament who also happened to be the son-in-law of Sir Thomas More. He lived until January 4, 1578. During his life, he was in a good position to gain insight into … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Harvard Classics, Henry VIII, History, Integrity, Reformation, The Life of Thomas More, Utopia, William Roper
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Locksley Hall – Alfred Tennyson
Based on an Arabic work called Mu’allaqat, in 1835, Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote himself a dramatic monologue in a set of 97 rhyming couplets. It is a stream of consciousness work with it’s protagonist caught up in in an interior … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Civilization, Harvard Classics, Jealousy, Locksley Hall, Mu'allaqat, Poetry, Steam of Conciousness, Tennyson, Utopia
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Utopia – Thomas More
Utopia‘s proper title is De Optimo rei publicae deque nova insula Utopia. The literal translation of the title is “Of a republic’s best state and of the new island Utopia”. Its original title was even longer. It is interesting to … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Dialogue of Counsel, Harvard Classics, Philosphic Rule, Plato, Realistic, The Republic, Thomas More, Utopia
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