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18 October 2024 18:14

II

   "...Where the inward glory lighted.
Yet the old world of love liveth still in the heart,
   As we’ve many a sweet revealing:
And its rich fossil-jewels in tears will up-start
   With the warm flood of holier feeling.
Ay, Man—tho’ he beareth the brand of Sin,
   And the flesh and the devil have bound him—
Hath a spirit within, to old Eden akin,
   Only nurture up Eden around him

O the terrors, the tortures, the miseries dark
   That have curst us, and crusht, and cankered!
Yet, aye, from the Deluge, Humanity’s Ark
   Hath on some serene Ararat anchored.
O the golden chains that link heaven to earth,
   The rusts of all time cannot sever!
Evil shall die in its own dark dearth,
   And the Good liveth on for ever.
And Man—tho’ he beareth the brand of Sin,
   And the flesh and the devil have bound him—
Hath a spirit within, to old Eden akin,
   Only nurture up Eden around him.”

~Gerald Massey

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15 October 2024 07:42

“Society is not an assemblage of naturally free individuals; it is a hierarchy of groups, beginning with the family.”

~Robert Nisbet

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15 October 2024 02:19

Isaiah 41:10

"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."

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14 October 2024 22:17

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03 August 2024 06:25

"Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."

~Ezra Pound

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03 August 2024 02:23

Le Grand Canal Et Santa Maria Della Salute, 1908.

~Claude Monet

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03 August 2024 00:21

Beautiful Bolsward & Sloten in Friesland, Netherlands in 1924.

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02 August 2024 22:19

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02 August 2024 20:17

It's Summer time! ☀️💯

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30 July 2024 06:22

"We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the present."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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30 July 2024 02:21

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29 July 2024 22:18

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29 July 2024 18:16

"Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?"

~Jules Verne

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27 July 2024 06:25

"The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs." 

~Cicero

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27 July 2024 02:23

"Be true to your old dreams so that our world will not lose hope."

~Ezra Pound

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18 October 2024 18:13

I

Eden

“There is not a rift in the blue sky now,
   Where a million tempests tore it;
There is not a furrow on Ocean’s brow,
   Tho’ a million years have past o'er it.
And for all the storms and the strifes that have rufl’d
   Down the ages grim and gory;
Earth weareth her pleasant face, as of old,
   And laughs in her morning glory.
And Man—tho’ he beareth the brand of Sin,
   And the flesh and the devil have bound him—
Hath a spirit within, to old Eden akin,
   Only nurture up Eden around him.

O the cloud may have fall'n on the human face,
   And its lordliest beauty blighted;
For love hath gone out with a dark'ning trace,..."

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15 October 2024 04:25

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15 October 2024 00:18

Daddy's girl. 💞

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03 August 2024 07:26

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03 August 2024 04:24

~RETURN TO NATURE~

“Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it. He even talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.”

~E.F. Schumacher

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03 August 2024 01:22

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02 August 2024 23:30

“The nature of the universe is rational, and there is a single, divine plan that governs everything that happens within it.”

Epictetus

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02 August 2024 21:18

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02 August 2024 18:16

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

~William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

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30 July 2024 04:21

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30 July 2024 00:19

Teach your children and they will lead with experience. 🤍

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29 July 2024 20:17

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27 July 2024 07:26

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27 July 2024 04:24

Port Of Dieppe, Evening, 1882.

~Claude Monet

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27 July 2024 01:22

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