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Monthly Archives: December 2023
Thought For the Day: It May Sound Trite, But Using the Weapons of the Enemy, No Matter How Good One’s Intentions, Makes One the Enemy
“It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one’s intentions, makes one the enemy.” – Charles de Lint, writer and folk musician (b. 22 Dec 1951
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Tagged Charles de Lint, Enemy, Good Intentions, Matter, Sound, Thought For the Day, Trite, Weapon
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Thought For the Day: The More Humble and Obedient To God A Man Is, the More Wise and At Peace He Will Be In All That He Does
“The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.” – Thomas A. Kempis
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Tagged All, At Peace, God, Humble, Mankind, Obedient, Thomas A. Kempis, Thought For the Day, Wise
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First Principles: No Man Can Well Doubt the Propriety of Placing A President of the United States Under the Most Solemn Obligations To Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Country, Defend, Fidelity, First Principles, Joseph Story, Obligation, Pledge, Preseve, President, Propriety, Protect, Responsibility, United States
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Rewarming Miracles On the Street
Rewarming Miracles On the Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t want to seem to be too contraryOr an old-fashioned grump who is orneryBut does it seem creativity is stuck on repeatIs anyone questioning the miracle of any streetHollywood’s latest contributions seem derivative … Continue reading
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Tagged Abusive, Acceptance, Angst, Believe, Blessings, Burst, Capable, Care, Charm, Christmas, Conceive, Conservaive, Contest, Contrary, Creativity, Crumbs, Deceive, Derivative, Destroy, Discern, Dissastisfaction, Dream, Embrace, Epidemic, Face, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Festival, Forget, Formula, Good, Grump, Hallmark, Harm, Heart, Heartbreak, Hollywood, Immense, Joy, Jurassic, Kindness, Kris Kringle, Layers of Complexity, Learn, Lessons, Life, Lost, Love, Loyalty, Magic, Masks, Miracles, Money, Music, Ornery, Parade, People, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Question, Regret, Repeat, Repentance, Rewarm, Season, Secret, Share, Story, Streets, Stuffed Away, Teach, Toys, Trace, Trade, Tragic, Treasure, Treat, Truth, Understood, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: It Was Pride That Changed Angels Into Devils; It is Humility That Makes Men As Angels
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” – Saint Augustine
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Tagged Angels, Change, Devil, Humility, Mankind, Men, Pride, Saint Augustine, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The General Principles On Which the Fathers Achieved Independence Were the General Principles of Christianity
“The general principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.” – John Adams
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Tagged Attributes, Believe, Christianity, Eternal, Existence, First Principles, General Principles, God, Immutable, Indepndence, John Adams, The Fathers
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For All the Dickens…
For All the Dickens…by Michael DoyleIt’s on all these places and pages of the pastThat we look back on the things that didn’t lastWhen we do it is a surety that we will findAll those chains that constantly come to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat, Bind, Birth, Bright, Chains, Christmas Cheer, Christmas Tale, Depths, Dickens, Doubt, Dream, Earth, Everything, Excited Eyes, Fear, Find, Flames, Flickers, Ghost, Ghosts, God, Heart, Holy Morning, Hope, Humanity, Last, Light, Love, Night, Noel, Pages, Past, Places, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Reason, Recall, Season, Shadows, Shallows, Shine, Sing, Sky, Smile, Star, Sum, Surety, Tenement Walls, This World, Travel, True Love, Truth, Walk Among Us, Warm, Warming, Worth
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First Principles: To the Distinguished Character of Patriot, It Should Be Our Highest Glory To Add the More Distinguished Character of Christian
“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of patriot it should be our highest glory to add the … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Reflect Upon Your Present Blessings – Which Every Man Has Many – Not On Your Past Misfortunes of Which All Men Have Some
“Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 