Monthly Archives: February 2024

First Principles: Our Constitution Is An Instrument For the People To Restrain the Government

“[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry

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Happiness and Contentment In Lunar New Year 2024!

Aloha Promises Forever wishes all its readers the greatest contentment and success in this new year of the wood dragon! May all of your aspirations be met with the fullest success!!

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Thought For the Day: Wealth and Rank Are What A Man Desires, But Having Contentment Is the Greatest Wealth and Highest Rank

“Wealth and Rank Are What A Man Desires, But Having Contentment Is the Greatest Wealth and the Highest Rank” – Confucius

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A Wood Dragon’s Cosmology

A Wood Dragon’s Cosmologyby Michael DoyleThe time spent quietly comes to its endIt’s been another year of pleasant enough livingHaving found my best habits and friendsAnd it has been another year of peacefully givingBut in truth it has been yet … Continue reading

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First Principles: A Sacred Respect For the Constitutional Law Is the Vital Principle, the Sustaining Energy of A Free Government

“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last. … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Look Closely At the Present You Are Constructing: It Should Look Like the Future You Are Dreaming

“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.”– Alice Walker

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A New Horizon

A New Horizonby Michael DoyleOpen up your eyes and seeLook into the new horizonThe morning light brings possibilityShining on without corruptionThe purity of this new dayLies in your hands to be madeThe rain may fall along the wayBut don’t hide … Continue reading

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First Principles: It Must Be Known, That We Are At All Times Ready For War

“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: When Love and Skill Work Together, Expect A Masterpiece

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” – John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900)

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Even By the Blind

Even By the Blindby Michael DoyleWe lose ourselves in life’s false accusationsFalling into fear before the wicked prosecutionsThese are the lessons learned in life’s schoolLike pearls before swine in a misapplied golden ruleNo one loses purity at the and hands … Continue reading

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