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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Conveyor
In a sense more than innocence The written word is a conveyor Without any sort of pretense It’s a vivid sort of displayer Teaching use what we need Providing us with mental feed We cannot know the future If we … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Conveyor, Daily Prompt, Future, Learn, Nurture, Past, Present, Wisdom, Wordpress, Written Word
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Thought For the Day: Wisdom Goes Beyond Mere Recitation of Memorized Words
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a … Continue reading
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Tagged Memorization, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Recitation, Rote, Students, Thinking, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Know the Rules, Stake and Time Limits of the Game
“If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.” – Chinese proverb
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Tagged Chinese, Play, Quitting Time, Rules, Stakes, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: The Wit and Wisdom Found In Writing Is As Much Ours
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” – Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706) This super-skeptic found that in … Continue reading
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Tagged Application, Author, Philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Reader, Thought, Toleration, Wisdom, Wit
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Thought For the Day: May Light Always Surround You
“May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing; Your Heart embrace Feeling. May Wounds become Wisdom; Every Kindness a Prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your … Continue reading
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Tagged D Simone, Desires, Feeling, Goodness, Healing, Hold Close, Hope, Kindness, Laughter, Light, Passion, Strive, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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Seven Points of Beatitude (Sapientia)
Seven Points of Beatitude by Michael Romani As the ghosts of one year floated by to be received In a clarity of slumber of one refusing to be self-deceived I had turned on the television intending to rest a moment … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Awe, Beatitudes, Counsel, Courage, Endurance, Enlightenment, Family of God, Fortitude, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Humility, Kingdom, Knowledge, Photograph, Piety, Pleasures, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Reverence, Sacrament, Self Deception, Seven Swans A Swimming, Tolerance, Treasures, Understanding, Wisdom
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Mild
A wise man once whispered to me To open my heart if I wanted to see And follow my dreams to their truth. I have done so since my mild youth. Now, so much has changed and I’m older, But, … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Boldness, Choices, Daily Prompt, Dreams, Heart, Mild, Sight, Truth, Wisdom, Wordpress
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First Principles: Security and Private Property Rest On A Just Court
“Personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.” —Joseph Story (1833)
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Tagged Courts, First Principles, Integrity, Joseph Story, Justice, Personal Security, Private Property, Stability, Wisdom
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