benjamin franklin.

"For my own part, I am not so well satisfied of the goodness of this thing. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. -- I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? -- On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday, and St. Tuesday, will cease to be holidays. SIX days shalt thou labour, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them."

- Benjamin Franklin, The London Chronicle, November 29, 1766

facedown records spring sampler 2010

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Track List:

01. "Desire" - War of Ages

02. "Sink or Swim" - Onward to Olympas

03. "The Machine Stops" - A Hope for Home

04. "Project Ak-47" - Wrench in the Works

05. "Of the Flesh" - Hands

06. "Saul of Tarsus (The Messenger)" - For Today

07. "Hope for the Fallen" - Call to Preserve

08. "Malevolence" - A Plea for Purging

09. "The Army of the Chosen One" - Sleeping Giant

10. "More than Conquerors" - Impending Doom

11. "Hollow Eyes" - Take it Back!

12. "It's Never Safe to Dream" - Letter to the Exiles

13. "Unbreakable" - Saving Grace

songs to slay the dragons to

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Track List:

Endeavor the Seas “Untie Your Brothers”
The Overseer “The Author”
Oh the Blood “Song of the Second Coming” *Appears courtesy of Come & Live
Hands “Hope” *Song appears courtesy of Oort Records
Through Fallen Skies “Redemption (The Art of Surrender)
Tempest of Torment “I Am the Vapor”
The Heel, The Serpent “Monos”
Reapers are the Angels “Silence the Accuser”
Senseless Beauty “Dimuendo”
Sincerely Autumn “Blank Stares and the Unlying Ceiling”
Seladora “The Unusual Pros and Cons of Binary Code”
Second Thief “Pestilence”
Inlow “Stop Frog, Don’t Jump Under the Lawnmower”
ForeveratLast “These Heavenly Lights”
For the Love of God “Testimonies of Salvation”
Father Abraham “The Coming of….”
Behold the Man “In Death We Choose”
A Tragic Victory “Armadillos Don’t Make Good Pillows”
All or Nothing “It’s Only Blood” *Appears courtesy of Ethos Records
Your Memorial “Return to Reality”
Ready the Way “Come, Follow Me”
When Only Darkness Remains “Soldiers of the Last Days”
Blessed is He “The Counselor”
Aneirin “He Bowed His Head and Gave Up…”
One for the Angels “Death Rides a Pale Chinacopter”
Fayda “Never Return”
I Am Alpha and Omega “And The Demons Will Sleep” *Appears courtesy of Come & Live
Bloodline Severed “Reborn” *Appears courtesy of Bombworks Records
Shotgun Saints & the Man on Fire “Better Hurry to the Well”
See the Light “Brave the Seas”


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the office + weezy =

Dwight K. Schrute vs. Weezy - Office Musik (Clockwork Edit)

piano conquest pt 2

i learned this song tonight on piano.
it's so incredibly haunting.

the moment i heard it, i knew i wanted to learn it.

luckily for me, it's a pretty simple tune.

Win One for the Reaper (Life and Death) - Michael Giacchino

star-cross'd lovers

by alicexz on deviantart

#1- the night i met you