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First Principles: No People Will Tamely Surrender Their Liberties…When Knowledge Is Diffused and Virtue Preserved
“Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, First Principles, Inculcated, James Warren, Knowledge, Liberty, Minds, Moral Sense, People, Principles of Virtue, Public, Purpose, Reality, Samuel Adams, Surrender, Vice, Virtue, Wise
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In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head
The for the fourth day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 is: “…to write a poem based on an image from a dream”. … and so I did…. In A Still Sleeping Place Inside My Head by Michael Doyle The feeling comes … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Above, Again, Angels, Another, Beauty, Become, Begun, Below, Beyond, Black, Bold, Bring, Center Point, Chance, Chorus, Circumstance, Connect, Count, Cover, Dance, Dancing, Dark, Deep, Dissonant, Dominion, Dread, Dream, Dreamers, Drift, Drop, Energy, Evil, Experience, Fear, Feeling, Flow, Foe, Friend, God, Happen, Happiness, Hard, Head, Hope, Hunt, Image, Integration, Intimacy, Jacked, Join, Lame, Learn, Level, Life, Light, Live, Marry, Mask, Merge, Mermaid, Mind, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Numb, One, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Purpose, Reach Out, Real, Red, Reel, Relevancy, Revealing, Rip, Run, Sadness, Seal, Sing, Sleep, Slumber, Someday, Soul, Still, Supreme, Swirl, Syncrhonization, Tear, Thought, Times, Twilight, Undone, Unreal, Urgency, Vivid, Walk, Waltz, Want, Wax, White, Wild Card, World, Wormhole
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Thought For the Day: Hope Has Two Beautiful Daughters; Their Names Are Anger and Courage. Anger At the Way Things Are and the Courage To See They Not Remain As They Are
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” – Saint Augustine
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Tagged Anger, Beautiful, Courage, Daughters, Hope, Remain, Saint Augustine, See, Thought For the Day, Two, Way Things Are
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First Principles: Children Should Be Educated and Instructed In the Principles of Freedom
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” – John Adams, in Defense of the Constitutions (1787)
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Tagged Children, Defense of the Constitutions, Educate, First Principles, Freedom, Instruct, John Adams, Principles
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It Came As It Did
First Friday and third day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020. Today’s prompt is to create a word bank based on 10 key words and then not necessarily using all but keeping in mind an effort to echo the rhymes for these until … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic, Act, Allegory, Allow, Anomaly, Avoid, Badly, Behave, Beset, Bight, Biochemical, Bite, Brave, Bright, Bright Side, Bungalow, Came, Cave, Cold Sweat, Come What May, Community, Compare, Dance, Depression, Destination, Did, Dog Day, Domino, Elf, Epidemic, Even So, Everything, Fair, Family, Fight, Find, Finite, Foreheads, Gave, Government, Hand, Here, Hesitation, Hold, Home, Hope, I, Immunity, Impression, Impunity, Interest, Isolated, Isolation, Laugh, Library, Light, Love, Mandatory, Mask, Matters, Meaning, Memory, Middle, Might, Moment, Na/GloPoWriMo 20/20, Nation, Night, Noewhere, Noose, Old Play, Opportunity, Origins, Outline, Pair, Pandemic, Perfected, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Poor Me, Pour Me, Prayer, Promise, Psession, Question, Really, Recession, Regret, Roll, Rolling Wave, Rumor, Save, Science, Sew, Share, Shatters, Somewhere, Spread, Stare, Startle, Story, Stubbed Toe, Survive, Systemic, Tell, There, Threat, Time, Together, Tomorrow, Transparency, Travel Ban, Trite, Understand, Unity, Watch, Weaponize, Window, Woe, Word Bank, World, You
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Be the Salt
Based in part on Matthew 5:13: Be the Salt by Michael Doyle The God who was faithful then Will be as faithful now as when When He made Goliath fall Shaking down all the walls The salt of earth made … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, Cure, Earth, Faith, Faithful, Fall, Fall Out, Fear, Feeling, Forget, God, Goliath, Good News, Holy, Holy Ghost, Holy Star, Huddle, Humble, Influence, Isolation, Key, Light, Live, Matthew, Path, Pews, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevention, Pure, Right, Saint, Salt, Sanctified, Sanctity, Sell Out, Silent, Sing, Society, Son, Spirit, Stand up, The Church, Truth, Walls, Youth
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Idylls of the Progressive Age
Continuing in this look at American History. Idylls of the Progressive Age by Michael Doyle Theodore Roosevelt rose to the presidency Upon the assassination of William McKinley A cowboy rode into the White House that day Formidable and enthusiastic in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1904, 1912, Act, American History, Assassination, Booker T Washington, Bull Moose Party, Business, Century, Coalminers, Consoldiation, Constitution, Contrary, Cowboy, Dominance, Eugene Debs, Federal Reserve, Founders, Government, Idyll, Impropriety, John Muir, Land Reserve, Legislation, Nation, National Forest, Nationalism, Natural Beauty, Necessary, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Presidency, Progressive Age, Racism, Reform, Republican, Sanctity, Segregation, Senior Partner, Sentiment, Society, Stewardship, Sweeping Changes, Tariffs, Theodore Roosevelt, Trust Bust, White House, William Howard Taft, William McKinley, Winter, Woodrow Wilson
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Thought For the Day: Thought Is the Wind, Knowledge the Sail and Mankind the Vessel
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” – Augustus Hare
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First Principles: Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Sceptre From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. … Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” – Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist … Continue reading
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