Monthly Archives: May 2024

Thought For the Day: Forget Not That the Earth Delights To Feel Your Bare Feet and the Winds Long To Play With Your Hair

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran

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In A Million Days

In A Million Daysby Michael DoyleI find myself drowning in the ocean of youIn all of the good things I’ve learned to be trueThere, deep within your beautiful, dreamy eyesIs my future that I’ve come to recognizeIt’s said that looks … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Life Is Like A Library By An Author. In It Are A Few Books Which He Wrote Himself, But Most of Them Were Written For Him

“Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher and author (24 May 1878-1969)

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First Principles: It Is A Government of the People By the People For the People No Longer It Is A Government of Corporations By Corporations For Corporations

“It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations.” – Rutherford B. Hayes

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Harbor Minds

Harbor Mindsby Michael DoyleLike dolphins on an Aegean journeyBegan the seeds of ancient Greek philosophySome germinating into full-bloomed thoughtOthers leave more room, yet to be soughtOne notion after another brought sight to the blindOne motion after another for the good … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Make You Miserable

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – James A. Garfield

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Thought For the Day: When I Am Asked, “What In Your View Is the Worst Human Rights Problem In the World Today?” I Reply: “Absolute Poverty.”

“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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Our Living Hope

Our Living Hopeby Michael DoyleOur living hope is pureMaking our souls sureOf the Lord’s living graceAs we gaze on His holy faceWe know this by the tracesIn all we do as we embraceIn this living God we knowWho brings light … Continue reading

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First Principles: All See, and Most Admire, the Glare Which Hovers Round the External Trappings of Elevated Office…To Me There Is Nothing In It , Beyond…Its Connection With A Power of Promoting Human Felicity

“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.” … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Something Might Be Done By Throwing All One’s Weight On the Scale of Breadth, Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace, and Kindliness To Man and Beast

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading

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