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First Principles: Resolution One: I Will Live For God
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” – Jonathan Edwards
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Tagged First Principles, God, I, Jonathan Edwards, Live, No One Else, One, Resolution, Two, Will
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To Find Happiness
I think maybe a bit dour… To Find Happiness by Michael Romani I have been fighting to survive From the day I was born Struggling just to stay alive To find happiness and not be forlorn I have walked each … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor, Bend, Bliss, Born, Care, Cross, Depend, Destroy, Empty, Fault, Fight, Forlorn, Forward, God, Guard, Happiness, Mask, Numb, Oblivious, Onward, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Press, Reason, Struggle, Survive, Touch, Toward, Vain, Walk, Will, Wish
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Thought For the Day: A Tyranny Exercised For the Good of Its Victims May Be the Most Oppressive
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive… To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not even regard as disease is to be put on … Continue reading
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Tagged CS Lewis, Cure, Exercise, Good, Oppressive, Thought For the Day, Tyrannies, Tyranny, Victim, Will
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First Principles: Let Us Trust In God Rather Than Put Confidence In Princes
“To submit and resign their charter would be inconsistent with the main end of their fathers’ coming to New England…. [Although resistance would provoke] great sufferings, [it was] better to suffer than sin. Let them trust in the God of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charter, Confidence, First Principles, God of Their Fathers, Good Cause, Increase Mather, Mankind, New England, Prince, Provoke, Resign, Resist, Sin, Suffer, Trust, Will, Will of God
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Weapon As Formidable As Will and More Courage of A Free People
“No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Arsenal, Aversaries, Formidable, Free People, Moral Courage, Ronald Regan, Thought For the Day, Weapon, Will, World
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A Vancouverite Current
The Na/GloPoWriM0 Day 15 challenge is to provide a Robert Brown or Shakespearian styled monologue sort of a poem. I opted for a redo on Hamlet’s “To Be or Not To Be” monologue. Kind of.. I opted for happy thoughts not … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Beaten, Border, Caution, Conscience, Country, Coward, Current, Decision, Deep, Delay, Devote, Dream, Flesh, Folly, Fortune, Friend, Gloom, Good, Gray, Happiness, Happy, Heartache, Heir, Hope, Infatuation, Insolence, Jammies, Know, Life, Love, Me, Merit, Moment, Monologue, Mortal Coil, Motivation, Na/GloPoWriMo, Naked, Native Resolution, Noise, Patience, Pause, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Purn, Puzzle, Question, Quiet, Regret, Respect, Return, Reward, Robert Brown, Sake, Shock, Sky, Sleep, Song, Thought, Time, To Be Or Not To Be, Traveler, Trouble, Turn Back, Vancouver, Voyage, Warmth, Weary, Will, William Shakespeare, Wisdom, Wish, Worth
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First Principles: Patience Brings Us Our Goals
“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Goal, Great Oaks, Have, Individual, Little Strokes, Patience, Will
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Window Shopping
Life – it’s a flash, a bit of dash, and then maybe it’s over before we even know it’s begun… Window Shopping by Michael Romani It’s strange all those little things That make up our memory All the flashes and … Continue reading
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Tagged All Hallow's Eve, Apart, Branch, Charm, City Street, Country Lane, Dash, Different, Dream, Dust, Excavation, Expectation, Family Tree, Flash, Friends, Game, Happy, Heart, Highland, Legacy, Life, Living History, Meet, Memory, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Ruin, Same, Samhain, Shop, Song of Life, Strangers, Will, Window, You
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