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A Push Too Far
A Push Too Farby Michael DoyleA push too farAnd it’s going to leave a scarWhat a move to makeYou didn’t even fakeYou just stole my moneyI suppose you think it’s funnyI know that I honestly doCause I would have given … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Begun, Could, Done, Equivocation, Fake, Freeing, Funny, Given, Good, Honest, Money, More, Move, Natural Fact, New Chapter, No Good, Poetry and Poems, Protestation, Push, Scar, Sense, Task, Too Far, Would, Your Heart
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First Principles: Justice, Humanity, and Benevolence Are the Duties You Owe To Society In General. To Your Country the Same Duties Are Incumbent Upon You
“Justice, humanity and benevolence are the duties you owe to society in general. To your country the same duties are incumbent upon you with the additional obligation of sacrificing ease, pleasure, wealth and life itself for its defense and security.”– … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Benevolence, Country, Defense, Duties, Ease, First Principles, Humanity, Incumbent, Justice, Life, Obligation, Pleasure, Sacrifice, Security, Society, Wealth
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Thought For the Day: Literature Is Strewn With the Wreckage of Men Who Have Minded Beyond Reason the Opinions of Others
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” – Virginia Woolf
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Tagged Artist, Beyond Reason, Literature, Mind, Mind Excessively, Nature, Opinions of Others, Said, Strewn, Thought For the Day, Virginia Woolf, Wreckage
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Practiced Denial
Practiced Denialby Michael DoyleWe laugh, we smileWe practice our denialTrying hard to hideFeelings we can’t confideThere are words unspokenLike sharp sticks pokingLeaving wounds that will scarIt all went a bit too farPainted like a clownIt always got me downLike a … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Top, Circus, Clown, Confide, Cure, Defiled, Denial, Doomsayers, Down, Endure, Feelings, Hide, Laugh, Love, Monkeys, Paint, Poetry and Poems, Poke, Practice, Prescient, Sacrament, Scar, Sharp Sticks, Smile, Stop, Three Ring, Too Far, Unspoken, Words, Wounds
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First Principles: The Bosom of America Is Open To Receive Not Only the Opulent and Respectable Stranger, But the Oppressed and Persecuted of All Nations and Religions
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Absence of Flaw In Beauty Is Itself A Flaw
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” – Havelock Ellis, physician, writer, and social reformer (2 Feb 1859-1939)
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Tagged Absence, Beauty, Flaw, Havelock Ellis, Law, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Only Sure and Permanent Foundation of Virtue Is Religion. Let This Important Truth Be Engraved Upon Your Heart
“The only sure and permanent foundation of virtue is religion. Let this important truth be engraved upon your heart.” – Abigail Adams
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Tagged Abigail Adams, Engrave, First Principles, Foundation, Heart, Important, Permanent, Relgion, Sure, Truth, Virue
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Thought For the Day: Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never Did and Never Will.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon … Continue reading
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Tagged Concede, Demand, Find Out, Frederick Douglass, Impose, Injustice, Nothing, People, Power, Quietly Submit, Thought For the Day, Wrong
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 