Truth Made Flesh by Gregg Hake Truth made flesh is sublime When in nature or in rhyme; Never ugly like a fact, Perfectly her laws do act.
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Restoring to Grace
"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride." - Sophocles The intrigue and drama surrounding the resignation of General Petraeus from his post as Director of the CIA following the apparently accidental discovery of his extramarital affair by …
Chains of Circumstance
"We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain." - Mark Twain Your perspective is conditioned by and subject, in part, to your experience. Education …
The Last Card
“On the other hand, all those doubts which I had felt before I entered the cottage as to whether these creatures were friend of foe, and whether Ransom were a pioneer or a dupe, had for the moment vanished. My fear was now of another kind. I felt sure that he creature was what we …
The Immovable Object
"And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." Matthew 11:6 If love is the irresistible force, then truth is the immovable object. Truth cannot neither be owned nor cornered; human opinion pales and quivers in its almighty, imperturbable shadow. Gloria Steinem once observed that "The truth will set you free, but first …
Indemnifying Fleetness
The River of Life by Thomas Campbell The more we live, more brief appear Our life’s succeeding stages: A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders. But as the careworn cheek …
Held by the Truth
"There are a great many meaningless men in the community, and what that means is that, while they have the intelligence to understand an idea and the heart to feel it, yet the idea never gets so close to them as to have its reality tremendously experienced by them. We do not win our strength …
Truth Incarnate
"When calculating the prospects of a young man, and the likelihood of his being able to go through life without being taken off his feet, I always want to know whether he stands for anything in particular. A written sentence may be mere words or it may mean something. So a young man may be only …
Every Man a Word
If, as James A. Garfield wrote, "The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word", then Garfield himself left an ineffaceable word of victory, of the triumph of truth over deception, upon the pages of the history of man. His approach was …
Conventional Wisdom and Common Sense
"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle." Col. John Stapp My cousin tells the story of a South American who had recently moved to Atlanta to work at her company. He called in one day, having gotten lost while driving around the city (likely on one of the 71 streets …
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