Annotated Observations Of Life's Truths

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Friday, March 22, 2019

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 29

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Readiness, not age, is the gauge for tragedy in death. Men are the work of the hands of God, but nations are the work of the hands o...
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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 28

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False humility is attempted self-deception. True humility is instinctive self-forgetfulness. Cowardly men use sarcasm often becau...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 27

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Happiness is predicated upon goodness. No one ever committed suicide after a string of right choices. The will of man may technical...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 26

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Don't lie.  It's just more to memorize. Life isn't easier for Christians, but it makes more sense. You can have ...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 25

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People are first attracted to cynicism because it seems mature. Life is seldom fair, and it seems fair even less so. Grace i...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 24

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Trust is the price of a lie. If you believe the first verse of the Bible, you shouldn't have a problem with any of the others. ...
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Friday, November 1, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 23

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If you see yourself as your mother sees you, you are arrogant. The phrase "No offense..." is a hypocritical one.  There...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 22

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Let them be wrong. Prolixity is proportionate to age. It is facile to undo good and arduous to undo wrong. O...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 21

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Some want to be healthy, and some want to be happy. Wisdom lies not in what is said so much as what is not sai...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 20

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Hold a bird too tightly and it will choke.  Hold a bird too loosely and it will fly away. The circulation of infl...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote By Age 19

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The difference between heroism and foolhardiness is success. The main characteristic of perfection is consistency, and therefore pred...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote By Age 17

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 Dirty rubs off onto clean, but clean doesn't rub off onto dirty. The problem with the world is that people give more weight to ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Paramountcy Of The Soul

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The soul is the only thing that differentiates man from every other organism in the universe.  According to Genesis, it was made at the sam...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

The Power Of Words

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A fitly spoken word is capable of evoking the most vivid of realizations and the most beautiful of epiphanies.  I have previously quoted Ro...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Folly Of The Earthly Erudite

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     It is a formidable feat for an intelligent young person to go through the modern college system and come out with unshaken faith in th...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Love

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How can one classify love? Love is not merely an emotion - emotions are unstable; love is constant. Love is not merely a condition - con...
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