If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."
— Robert Burton (1577-1640)

Vergina Sun - Golden Larnax

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."
— Robert Burton (1577-1640)

The titled responsion adds a little light to that which sustains all life.

Robert Burton - planksip

From Oxford University, Robert Burton was best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire.

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The beauty of this quote from Robert Burton is the meaning of adding a candle (love ) to the sun (greater love). On one hand, it may seem insignificant, however on second thought it's part of something bigger and since how love is universally accepted as an ideal, the sun is our absolute, coupling the two eliminates all applied meaning of insignificance to the allusion. The, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" responsion is an instruction towards compliance and the "light" that everyone knows our only true life force.

Platonic en forme

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."
— Lord Byron (1788-1824)

The titled responsion is a shot out to my man Plato, not that he is listening. Do you see what transcendence means?

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Lord Byron, was a British nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.

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Alluding to the ideal, the perfect storm is brewing in an anthropomorphic master. Incipit to the opening capital, the Polis is the ideal community and the rising sun is Hellenic. Compare and contrast the writings and thoughts of Lord Byron with the Hegemony from Ancient Greece and the peripatetic philosophers like yours truly!

Heading Towards Vergina and the Hellenic

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
— Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

The titled responsion is Hellenic in origin.

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Walter “Walt” Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works.

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Head on and Hellenic in origin the shadows of this illuminated allusion is a story worth learning about. Failures of interpretation and the transmission of wisdom determine the dogma that dictates the cannon fodder that will soon follow. Less than ideal, this approach is often the reality that history reveals.

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