pretext
of this of course omitted here... this is an excerpt expanded on
morality and conscience.... like Pope Francis' Words end ---- I expect
to see you at my home for that discussion matter --- for I am the one
wisdom wise here in this case. Thank you for being an opening to
opportunity to bring back some sanity in our society.
Your marker in history will not be unnoticed to what actions you have in this case.
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Good conscience!---at the sound the world retires:
Verse disaffects it, and Lorenzo smiles;
Yet has she her seraglio full of charms;
And such as age shall heighten, not impair.
Art thou dejected? Is thy mind o'ercast?
Amid her fair ones, thou the fairest choose,
Thy gloom to chase.---"Go, fix some w
eighty truth; Chain down some passion;
do some generous good; Teach Ignorance
to
see, or Grief to smile; Correct thy friend; befriend thy greatest foe;
Or, with warm heart, and confidence Divine, Spring up, and lay strong
hold on Him who made thee."
Thy gloom is scatter'd, sprightly spirits flow,
Though wither'd is thy vine, and harp unstrung.
Dost call the bowl, the viol, and the dance,
Loud mirth, mad laughter?
Wretched comforters!
Physicians, more than half of thy disease!
Laughter, though never censured yet as sin,
(Pardon a thought that only seems severe
,)
Is half-immoral: is it much indulged?
By venting spleen, or dissipating thought,
It shows a scorner, or it makes a fool;
And sins, as hurting others or ourselves.
'Tis Pride, or Emptiness, applies the straw
That tickles little minds to mirth effuse;
Of grief approaching, the portentous sign!
The house of laughter makes a house of w
oe.
A man triumphant is a monstrous sight;
A man dejected is a sight as mean.
What cause for triumph where such ills abound?
Continues Of Course....
