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Thought For the Day: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers That Perches In the Soul – and Sings the Tunes Without the Words – and Never Stops At All
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
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Tagged Soul, Thought For the Day, Hope, Sing, Tune, Perch, Stop, Emily Dickinson, Feathers, Wod
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First Principles: If Fear Is Cultivated, It Will Become Stronger; If Faith Is Cultivated, It Will Achieve Mastery
“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” – John Paul Jones
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Tagged Achievement, Cultivaation, Fear, First Pcincples, John Paul Jones, Mastery, Strong
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Beats Held In Reverence
Beats Held In Reverenceby Michael DoyleRiffing off Shakespeare to be closer at heartThe drum roll lyrics caught us from the start.Never playing down any observed reflection,There’s not been much that has escaped detection.Dissatisfaction with the points arrived,There are greater truths … Continue reading
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Tagged Beats, Dissatsfction, Drum Roll, Lyrrics, Poetry an Poems, Reflection, Reverence, Riff, Shakespeare, Truth, Views, Yesterday's Papers
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First Principles: The First Maxim of A Man Who Loves Liberty, Should Be Never To Grant To Rulers An Atom of Power That Is Not Most Clearly and Indispensably Necessary For the Safety and Well Being of Society
“The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.” – Richard Henry Lee
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Tagged Atom of Power, First Maxiim, First Prrincples, Liberty, Mankinid, Necessary, Richard Henry Lee, Rulers, Society, Well-Beiing
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Thought For the Day: Take Care of Your Garden. And Keep Out the Weeds. Fill It With Sunshine, Kind Words, and Kind Deeds
“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Care, Flowers, Fruit, Garden, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kind Deeds, Kind Hearts, Kind Thoughts, Kind Words, Roots, Sunshine, Thought For the Day, Weeds
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A Praise Song For Mother’s Day
A Praise Song For Mother’s Dayby Michael DoyleA Mother’s Day is a remembrance of love.It’s devoted to following Heaven above.Angels sing of her righteous wayHere on this, our holy Mother’s Day.Without a mother in this story,Where would be God’s good … Continue reading
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Tagged Angells, Glory, Grace, Heaven, Lovve, Place, Poetry and Poems, Praise Song, Promse, Remembrance, Righteousnnness, Silent Night
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Thought For the Day: Change Your Words Into Truths and Then Change That Truth Into Love
“Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE.” – Stevie Wonder
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Tagged Change, Love, Stevie Wonder, Thought For the Day, Truth, Words
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First Principles: The True Liberty of the Press Is Amply Secured By Permitting Every Man To Publish His Opinion; But It Is Due To the Peace and Dignity of Society, To Inquire Into the Motives
“The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between … Continue reading
A Gentle Interpretation
A Gentle Interpretationby Michael DoyleSpiritual discipleship forms with rhythms of rest.It’s a life of humility, and not a free-flowing test.It is said that the Sabbath is silence and solitudeLived in willing apprentice and loving gratitude.The decision is made to live … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprentice, Bible, Christianity, Discipleship, Faith, Gentle, God, Gratitude, Humllity, Hurry, Intentional, Interpretation, Jesus, Poetry and Poems, Relatioinal, Rest, Solitude, Spirituality, Test, The Sabbath, Worry
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First Principles: I Do Not Want A Government That Will Take Care of Me. I Want A Government That Will Make Other Men Take Their Hands Off Me So I Can Take Care of Myself
“…I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.“ – Woodrow Wilson
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Tagged Care, First Princ[ples, Government, Hands Off, Other Persons, Self, Want, Woodrow Wlson
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 