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Thought For the Day: Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
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Tagged All, Few, Love, None, Thought For the Day, Trust, William Shakespeare, Wrong
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Left Behind
Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Bounds of Authority, Civil Society, Constitution, End, Exigency, First Principles, Government, Ijury, James Madison, Justice, Justisy, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Powers, Pursue, Pursuit, Standard, The People, Tyrannical Use
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Thought For the Day: Education Perverts the Mind Since We Are Directly Opposing the Natural Development of Our Mind By Obtaining Ideas First and Observations Last
“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among … Continue reading
First Principles: It Is the Duty of All Nations To Acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God
“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” – George Washington (1789)
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Tagged Acknowledge, Benefits, Duty, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, God, Grateful, Humble, Implore, Nation, Obey, Protection, Providence, Will
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Thought For the Day: The Possession of Knowledge Does Not Kill the Sense of Wonder and Mystery. There Is Always More Mystery
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” – Anais Nin
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Tagged Anais Nin, Kill, Knowledge, Mystery, Possession, Sense, Thought For the Day, Wonder
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Signaled Purity
Signaled Purityby Michael DoyleThe future is dark with obscurityFilled as it is with so much uncertaintyThe song of love will prevailAs the rains and winds outside swellYou can promise happiness and never knowThe fortunes that will come and goLike a … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Bride, Come and Go, Day, Divide, Embrace, Expression, Eyes, Feelings, Feet, Fill, Find, Fortune, Found, Future, Happiness, Know, Left Behind, Monstrosity, Morality, Night, None, Obscurity, Past, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prevail, Prometheus, Promise, Purity, Rains, Repression, Signal, Song of Love, Spoken, Swell, Tale, Threshold, Trap, Ugligness, Unbound, Uncertainty, Unfold, Way, White, Wind, Words, Worn
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First Principles: Still I Hope I Shall Always Possess Firmness and Virtue Enough To Maintain (What I Consider the Most Enviable of All Titles) the Character of An Honest Man
“Still I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man.” – George Washington to Alexander Hamilton (Thursday, August 28, 1788)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Character, Consider, Enviable, Firmness, First Principles, George Washington, Honest Man, Hope, Maintain, Possess, Title, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: There Is Nothing Worse Than A Sharp Image of A Fuzzy Concept
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.” -Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)
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Tagged Ansel Adams, Fuzzy Concept, Nothing, Photograph, Sharp Image, Thought For the Day, Worse
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