Ten Wise Quotes to Ponder This Day

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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death." ~Leonardo da Vinci

“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal

"Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest; For time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest...Because you are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.” ~T.S. Eliot

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." ~Susan Ertz

“The greatest thing in life is to die young – but delay it as long as possible." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Voltaire

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." Shakespeare

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." ~Mickey Mantle

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Two Poems Celebrating America's Independence Day (1876 and 1909)

 

Poem for Independence Day by Marcia Jane Eaton 1876

HOW shall we celebrate the day

To which our freedom owes its birth; 

When firm, yet seeking no display, 

The patriots stood in proud array,

Before the mighty ones of earth?

Trusting in God, they stood alone, 

With dauntless front and unquelled eye, 

No servile fear, no sorrowing moan, 

As thus they braved high England's throne, 

And Liberty or Death," their cry. 

Heaven smiled propitious on the hour,

And nerved with hope the little band

They bade farewell to beauty's bower, 

And armed with justice, clothed in power, 

Fought boldly for their native land.

They fought against the tyrant king, 

Led on by freedom's chosen son- 

With clash of arms the valleys ring, 

Till loud their triumph-song they sing, 

Of victory and Washington. 

Not all in vain their blood so free

Was spilled like rain-drops o'er the earth, 

But gathering in one mighty sea

Waters the tree of liberty,

Which in each freeman's heart finds birth.

How shall we celebrate the hour,

Which set our own loved country free? 

With joyous shout in peaceful bower, 

With cannon's roar, and music's power, 

We'll hail the Nation's jubilee. 

Our banner, with its stripe and star, 

We'll keep unstained from sire to son- 

Each breeze shall waft its folds afar, 

Unsullied, as when first in war 

It waved o'er fields of vict'ry won.

We'll teach our children freedom's song, 

To lisp in artless joyous glee, 

And ever, as the strains prolong,

We'll shout the echo loud and long,

Our own America is free!

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INDEPENDENCE DAY

WE celebrate "a day of days,"

Which saw a nation rise

Through din of battle, clash of arms,

And severed kindred ties.

This day we draw aside the veil,

And backward take a look

On stirring scenes, brought to our view, 

 As in an open book. 

We see the lights in "old North Church" 

Those beacons burning bright 

And gallop on with Paul Revere, 

Throughout that fateful night. 

We fight with men at Bunker Hill, 

Whose aim was good and true 

Nerved to the task by loyal hearts, 

'Neath coats of buff and blue. 

With praying Washington we wait 

At Valley Forge, in snow and sleet, 

And see the blood-prints on the ground 

From shoeless soldiers' feet. 

With thin-clad, shiv'ring, dauntless men 

We cross the Delaware 

To meet the foe and capture them, 

And untold perils dare. 

We rise with those patriots brave, 

When they their names affix 

To the "Declaration" broad and grand, 

Of Seventeen Seventy-six. 

As liberty loud it proclaims,

We hear the tones of the bell, 

While echoing valley, hill and glen 

The message to nations tell.

And so each year we celebrate

This day, so dear to all,

When a Nation to new life awoke,

At Freedom's earnest call.

-Mary M. North. 1909

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The Greatness of the American Republic by Archbishop Ireland 1897

What is a main and most important difference between a Republic and a Democracy?

In a republic, a constitution or charter of rights protects certain inalienable rights that cannot be taken away by the government, even if it has been elected by a majority of voters. In a "pure democracy," the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority.