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Is it the nature of the other speciesThat they go to seed beforeThey have taken root themselves—That they bear youngBefore maturity? Yet it is in the nature of humankindThat they may chooseTo reproduce beforeThey are fit forParenthood.

The serpent promised that they could rise above The nature into which they had been createdBy performing beneath it—

They harden themselves against the realizationThat they have done wrong—As if this were good for them,And not self-abuse—As if they had something better to doThan what is right—As if they had something better to believeThan what is true.

It is important to himThat you know—Along with everybody else—That your post was “TLDR”.

Is there not a fair distinctionTo be made betweenBeing set in one’s waysAnd being set in God’s way?

On this date in 1776, America went famously on record against governmental tyranny and against the usurpation of powers not rightfully authorized. She declared that the only rightful powers of a government are those to which the people consent, and … Continue reading →

There is a correlation, no doubt,Between the popular and nasty habitsOf quoting someone without citing the sourceAnd of lauding an idea without knowing what it means.

One can decide right now to get wisdom,But he cannot get it all at once. Rather, he must keep deciding it over and over. And so it goes with a thousand other treasures, too—The acquisition of each depending on The … Continue reading →

Suppose I should be so driven against a manThat I decided not to acknowledge his good deedsAnd his good qualitiesAnd his accomplishments— That knowing them,I pretended as if they were not so now,And never had been— And suppose I should … Continue reading →

I’d love to live in an historic houseFrom a time when beauty in architectureSeems to have mattered more Than it does today.