Uncle Andy’s Medicine Show
May 20, 2007
QUOTABLE
April 27, 2007
“I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of Hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.”
Martin Luther
The Thrill of Life in my Father’s World
April 23, 2007
“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven; see yourself in your Father’s Palace; and look upon the skies, the earth and the air as Celestial Joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the Angels. The bride of a monarch, in her husband’s chamber, hath no such causes of delight as you.”
Thomas Traherne
Wisdom
April 23, 2007
“Blessed is the man who find wisdom,
the man who gains understanding,
for she is more profitable than silver
and yields better returns than gold.
She is more precious than rubies;
nothing you desire can compare with her.
Long life is in her right hand;
in her left hand are riches and honour.
Her ways are pleasant ways,
and all her paths are peace.
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her;
those who lay hold of her will be blessed.
Courage
April 23, 2007
Of the seven virtures Courage is often one I lack most often. This poem by Tennyson has always inspired me to buck up and be a man.
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them,
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Fash’d all their sabers bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air
Sab’ring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder’d:
Plunged in the battery smoke
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel’d from the saber stroke
Shatter’d and sunder’d
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d:
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of death
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them –
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
Oh, the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder’d.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade –
Noble six hundred!
The Wisdom of Patience
April 20, 2007
‘Go now, fosterson; and take the advice of the King. That will ever be wiser than your own counsel. Yet I do not think that you will long abide with us in Doriath beyond the coming of manhood. If in days to come you remember the words of Melian, it will be for your good: fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.’
QUOTABLE
April 18, 2007
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself… Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”
– H.L. Mencken
Nothing but Damn lies
April 18, 2007
Gregory Cochran on our beloved War Party and their propoganda
Silent Film Stars
April 17, 2007
I grow so weary of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and all the other so called conservative neo-con shills. One wonders what has happened to genuine thinking conservatives along the lines of say a Russell Kirk. Now all you hear is War Party totalitarian propoganda all day long. I wish you all would just keep your pretty little trap shut.
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