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First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Art of Government, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Right and Wrong, Think and Act, Thomas Jefferson
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Lives Lived With Gratitude
Lives Lived With Gratitudeby Michael DoyleTwo words received along the journeyTen men found their way to destinySamaritans and Jews knew their enmityExcept where leprosy was the common enemyStruck with this sort of a diseaseAs they slowly died, putting others ill … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Anew, Astray, Burning Fire, Clay, Common Enemy, Contemplation, Destiny, Disease, Enmity, Enthusiasm, Faith, Fear, Fingers of God, God's Eyes, Gratitude, Heal, Hearts of Love, Hell, Holy Grace, Holy Love, Holy Power, Hour, Ill At Ease, Indulgence, Jesus, Jews, Jouney, Journey, Least Likely, Leprosy, Life, Lives, Love, Loving Embrace, Miracles, Obedience, Optimism, Pity and Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayers, Presevere, Pride, Promises, Reborn, Redeemed, Redemption, Reveal, Right Attitude, Self Control, Self Evidence, Shared Story, Side, Soul, Sufficient Faith, Supernatural, Thankfulness, Today, Tomorrow, Two Words, Unclean, Valley, Victory, Willful Rejection, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: We Are Healed of A Suffering Only By Expressing It To the Full
“We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.” -Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922)
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Tagged Express, Heal, Marcel Proust, Suffering, Thought For the Day, To the Full, We
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First Principles: The Mild Voice of Reason, Pleading the Cause of An Enlarged and Permanent Interest, Is But Too Often Drowned…By the Clamors of An Impatient Avidity
“The mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.” – James … Continue reading
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Tagged Cause, Clamor, Drown, Enlarge, First Principles, Gain, Immediate, Immoderate, Impatient Avidity, Individuals, James Madison, Mild, Permanent Interest, Public Bodies, Voice of Reason
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That We’ve Received
That We’ve Receivedby Michael DoyleOur praise shakes the groundEarth and Heaven chased aroundWild and free as the winds blowingWe raise this love before the All-KnowingWorking His wonders before our eyesTo deliver His promises without surpriseGiving all the glory to His … Continue reading
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Tagged All Days, All-Knowing, Believe, Blessings, Deliver, Earth and Heaven, Everyday, Eyes, Glory, Ground, Healing Power, Heaven Above, Holy Name, Lift, Love, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Promises, Received, Shower, Surprise, Teach, Wind, Wonders
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First Principles: Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the Lord!
“Hallelujah! Praise God in His sanctuary. Praise Him in His mighty heavens. Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him for His excellent greatness. Praise Him with the sound of the horn; Praise Him with the harp and lyre. Praise … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Cymbals, Dance, Everything That Has Breath, First Principles, Flute, Greatness, Hallelujah, Harp, Heavens, Horn, Lord, Lyre, Praise God, Psalm 150, Sanctuary, Sound, Strings, Tambourine
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Thought For the Day: The Fear of Telling the Truth – Whatever That Truth May Be – That Fear Is the Most Painful Sensation of A Moral Life
“As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adult, Child, Fear, June Jordan, Moral Life, More Painful, Not To Tell Truth, Painful, Sensation, Taught, Thought of the Day, Truth
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A Smile of Death
A Smile of Deathby Michael DoyleThe morning comes with a “how have you been”That comes a bit too brightly in world gone dimA smile unwelcomed can being its sense of dreadWith the ominous thought that we’ll all soon be deadThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Breath, Control, Creativity, Creep, Dead, Death, Delusion, Depravity, Dim, Dread, Dreary, Morning, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post-Traumatic, Real, Scream, Smile, Soul Weary, Tired, Uncertain, Zen
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Gift I Can Conceive of Having From Anyone Is To Be Seen, Heard, Understood, and Touched By Them
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.” -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceive, Greatest Gift, Heard, Seen, Thought For the Day, Touched, Understood, Virginia Satir
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First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty. Suspect Every One Who Approaches That Jewel
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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Tagged Approach, Attention, Every One, First Principles, Guard, Jealous, Jewel, Patrick Henry, Public Liberty, Suspect
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 