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First Principles: Fathers, Do Not Exasperate Your Children, Instead, Bring Them Up In the Training and Instruction of the Lord
“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4 (NIV)
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Thought For the Day: I Slept and Dreamt That Life Was Joy. I Awoke and Saw That Life Was Service. I Acted and Behold, Service Was Joy
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” – Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)
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A Truth Told
A Truth Toldby Michael Doyle Trapped within lies within liesA truth illuminates under artificial skiesAnd the pain makes for the better manIt’s a script a believer can understand Meant, as it is, to make us believeThough written so carefully as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Anguish, Answer, Artificial Skies, Beginning, Believe, Better Man, Breaking My Heart, Broken Life, Cancer, Clever, Complexity, Construct, Construction, Deceive, Dexterity, Eggs, Faith, Fools, Forgiving, Found, Frames Per Second, Game, Illusory, Imporbable, Lies, Living, Mass Destruction, Meant, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reflection, Reveals, Revolt, Rules, Script, Self-Destruct, Start, Trapped, Truth, Truth Told, Understand, Vault, Win
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First Principles: It Should Be the Highest Ambition of Every American To Extend His Views Beyond Himself
“It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Co-Extensive, Conduct, Country, Extend, First Principles, George Washington, Highest Ambition, Influence, Mind, Posterity, Views, World
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Thought For the Day: Poetry Is the Art of Creating Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” -Marianne Moore, poet (15 Nov 1887-1972)
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Tagged Art, Create, Imaginary Gardens, Marianne Moore, Poetry, Real Toads, Thought For the Day
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Artistic Travesty
Artistic Travestyby Michael DoyleMouth breathers don’t truly understandThe logic, as it were, of supply and demandThat produces things of artistic travestyLike the weight of the world bringing me to my kneesThis is a complex world in its friendingAnd not often … Continue reading
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Tagged Artistic Traversty, Best of Us, Conspiracy, Cross, Descend, Dreams, Fatal Breakup, Fate, Find, Free Will, Friending, Happy Ending, Hopeless, Knees, Left Behind, Mouth Breathers, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Redundancy, Skills, Startled, Supply and Demand, Understnd, Weight of the World
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First Principles: The Aim of Every Political Constitution Is, Or Ought To Be, First To Obtain For Rulers Men Who Possess Most Wisdom to Discern, and Most Virtue To Pursue, the Common Good of the Society
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Common Good, Contine, Discern, Effectual, First Principles, Hold, James Madison, Political Constitution, Precautions, Public Trust, Pursue, Rulers, Society, Virtue, Virtuous, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: The Possession of Unlimited Power Will Make A Despot of Almost Any Man. There Is A Possible Nero In the Gentlest Human Creature That Walks
“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
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Tagged Any Man, Despot, Gentle, Human Creature, Nero, Possession, Possible, Thomas Bailey Aldirch, Thought For the Day, Unlimited Power, Walk
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Blood Path of the Samurai
Blood Path of the Samuraiby Michael DoyleYou’re not just going to leaveA beheaded man on the ground?She asked in what I believeIs her shocked voice soundYou don’t see that everydayBut that, my dear, is the samurai’s waySmall men snuff out … Continue reading
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Tagged Assume, Beheaded, Blood, Correction, Decided, Derided, Doom, Faces, Fate, Hidden Places, Hour, Light, Path, Poetry and Poems, Powers, Promise, Prophesy, Reflection, Safe, Samurai, Secret, Snuff, Spill, Tale
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First Principles: It Will Not Be Denied That Power Is of An Encroaching Nature, and That It Ought To Be Effectually Restrained From Passing the Limits Assigned
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison
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