Classics Considered

by Marian H

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  • Palm Sunday

    Palm Sunday

    Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself. John 12:31–32 (NKJV) A blessed Palm Sunday to everyone observing, and love to all. ❤️ Continue reading

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  • The Test of Pain and Memory – Three Selections

    The Test of Pain and Memory – Three Selections

    It’s not often that one’s unrelated current readings overlap each other topically, but such was the case this week. These texts resonate with a conviction that has been growing in me in recent years: that it is in actions (and the pain and sacrifice alongside them) where we find reality, or the truth about who Continue reading

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  • Frederick the Great on The Prince

    I will defend humanity against this monster which wants to destroy it; I dare to oppose Reason and Justice to sophism and crime; and I ventured my reflections on Machiavel’s Prince, chapter by chapter, so that the antidote is immediately near the poison. I always have regarded The Prince as one of the most dangerous Continue reading

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  • What is a man…

    What is a man,If his chief good and market of his timeBe but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,Looking before and after, gave us notThat capability and god-like reasonTo fust in us unused. Now, whether it beBestial oblivion, or some craven scrupleOf thinking too precisely Continue reading

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