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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
    —     Joseph Addison
What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
    —     Hermann Hesse
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On This Day In:
2021 In That Moment
Something A Little More Recent
A Request For Help (Indian Pop Music)
2020 Above Her Sink
In A Slower Lane Now
2019 #DullDonald
2018 And Start With Charity
2017 First Things First
2016 Why Would We Expect Truth From A Liar?
Unknown Fear
2015 Something Pagan
2014 A Note To Self
2013 Determining Our Degree Of Freedom
2012 Journalism And Fantasy
Known Knowns
Jerk, n.
2011 Love Questions

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
    —     Joseph Addison
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
    —     Nelson Mandela
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On This Day In:
2021 An Impossible Situation
I Fear It Is (For Us If Not The Planet)
2020 #45 Never Shuts Up
Walkin’ In The Rain With The One I Love
2019 Silly Pooh Bear
Dominoes Or Jenga?
2018 Very Few
2017 Or The Candidate Who…
2016 The Happiest People
2015 Jumping Into The Dark
2014 I Would Be Sillier
2013 It Keeps Happening Anyway
2012 Take Time
2011 A Mother’s Lesson
2010 3rd Pair – Shoe Review (DOA and Final)

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I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
    —     Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2020 I Don’t Want To Get Any Older…
Maybe I’ll See You There
2019 Free At Last!
2018 Some Basic Virtues
Day 17: Fit In 48’s
2017 Too Soon We Part…
Rigorous And Difficult
2016 Where And Why
2015 The Beauty Of Thy Voice
2014 Faith In Men
2013 An Average Verge
2012 Dew Drop Secrets
2011 Champion Freedom

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We cannot ensure success, but we can deserve it.
    —    Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2022 We Are Seeing The Future
2021 The Correct Answer Will Be In The Form Of A Question
Listen Up
2020 Testing To Open The Economy Safely
2019 Or Thought I’d Thought
2018 Go And Dare
2017 And Wealth A Poor Substitute For Ability
2016 Neither Darkness Nor Shadows
2015 It Took Roots
2014 Hard Evidence
2013 Full Participation
2012 Roving (Again)
Ooops, Again
2011 Why Not?

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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
    —  Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2022 When Your World Seems Dark
2021 Keep Looking
It’s Feeling Good
2020 Why Are So Many Of My Posts Simply Quotes?
2019 Two Books
2018 Prime Example = #45
2017 Building On
2016 Dueling Heroes
2015 Remarkable Creations
2014 Measured Faith
2013 April Fool, n.
2012 Faith, Ego And Patriotism
As It Happens
2011 What Counts

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
    —    Joseph Addison
[I’m just trying to chip away at the extra bits to reveal what’s inside.    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022 Living In The Big Lie With A Loser
2021 An Obligation To Condemn Is Not An Obligation To Ban
Caught In The Rain
2020 Me Too
2019 #45: Whitewalkers Tremble, Treason Is Forever
2018 Light Or Darkness
2017 Doubtful Education
2016 Absolute
2015 Still The Best Teacher
2014 Inside The Soul
2013 A Toe In The River
2012 Believe It Or Not
2011 The Road To Recovery (And More Myths)

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
    —    Joseph Addison
[How’s that for an addition to your New Year’s resolutions?  Happy New Year’s everyone!    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2022 Happy New Year — 2022!
New Year Changes To My Blog
2021 Happy New Year — 2021!
Facing The New Year
2020 Happy New Year — 2020!
2019 Happy New Year — 2019!
2018 Happy New Year — 2018!
2017 Happy New Year — 2017!
2016 Happy New Year — 2016!
Remembering My Brother
2015 Happy New Year — 2015!
2014 Happy New Year – 2014!
2013 Another New Year’s Thought (In Case It Rains)
Happy New Year – 2013!
2012 Best Wishes For 2012!
Where Did You Spend New Year’s Eve?
2011 Happy New Year (2011)!!

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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
    —    Joseph Addison
[Musta been talkin’ ’bout Rush Limbaugh…    —    kmab]
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On This Day In:
2021 Someone Should Tell Senator Joe Manchin
One Of The Things We Need
2020 Boxing Day 2020
Fractal Branches
Advice For Sons, Too
2019 Almost Soulful Pleasure
2018 Cursive In The News
2017 Coffee Crunch
2016 Preparation
2015 Scarcely Asked
2014 They Resemble Us
2013 Both
2012 That’s Success!
2011 Losing At Dominoes
2010 1,001

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  These are but trifles, to be sure;  but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
    —    Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2021 If You Do Nothing About Climate Change
Standing By
2020 Each Over All
Rollin’ Along
2019 And Integrity For Today’s Elected Republicans
2018 A Faulty Start, Too
Honorable Resignation And Syria
2017 Beneath The Tree Of Wisdom
The Republican Rape Of The American Middle Class
2016 Something Authentic Happened
2015 Back On The Bricks
On, Rocinante!!
2014 Changing Frequently
2013 Trifles
2012 Simple, Ordinary And Wonderous
2011 Humane Writers

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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
     —    Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2021 Chocolate
Never Knowing
2020 In Passing
Look A Little Bit Closer
2019 Especially Mine
90 Day Health / Weight Update (Dec 2019)
2018 And Some Never Do
2017 When We Know We Are Loved
2016 Good Acts
2015 Will You Be Leaving Soon?
2014 Just Long Enough
2013 R.I.P. – Tom Laughlin
Seeking Success?
2012 All Aboard
2011 Sail On, Sailor

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
   —   Joseph Addison
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On This Day In:
2021 My Fear Is She Loses This Bet
Gotta Stay Hungry
2020 Still On The Obstacle Course?
Thunder
2019 Expecting A December Correction
2018 Dominoes II (Update From Last Year’s Post)
2017 Dominoes
2016 Itchin’
2015 In The Not So Distant Future
2014 Sources
2013 Three Essentials
2012 Just Looking
2011 Religious Lessons
2010 View From Under The Bus… (A mid-term report card on the Obama Administration. Long, but still worth reading for historical perspective.)

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