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Thought For the Day: Never, No, Never, Did Nature Say One Thing, and Wisdom Say Another Thing
“Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing, and Wisdom say another.” – Edmund Burke, in his Third Letter on Regicide Peace, 1797
First Principles: A Nation That Destroys Its Soils Destroys Itself. Forests Are the Lungs of Our Land, Purifying the Air and Giving Fresh Strength To Our People
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tagged Air, Destroy, First Principles, Forests, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lungs, Nation, Our Land, Our People, Soil, Strength
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Thought For the Day: When the Eyes Say One Thing, and the Tongue Another, A Practiced Man Relies On the Language of the First
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tagged Another, Eyes, First, Language, One Thing, Practiced Man, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rely, Say, Thought For the Day, Tongue
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First Principles: A People Who Mean To Be Free Must Be Prepare To Meet Danger In Person, and Not Rely Upon the Fallacious Protection of Armies
“A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies.” – Edmund Randolph
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She Learns To Survive
She Learns To Surviveby Michael DoyleTo her, I’m her fatherAs I watch my daughterWalking alone in the nightShe’s always been my lightBut it wasn’t always this wayShe’s haunted by the dayThese moments hidden insideBehind her fragile prideHe took her innocenceI’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandoned, Afraid, Agnoize, Agonizes, Almost Took Her Life, Alone, Beautiful, Beside, Blossom, Bold, Brave, Child of the Light, Confide, Creid, Darkest Depth, Daughter, Day, Dread, Eyes, Father, Feeling, Fight, Fragile Pride, Fright, Grow, Hand, Haunted, He, Head, Heat, Her, Hidden Inside, Hold, In the End, Innocence, Intended Offense, Intense, Know, Learn, Life, Light, Love, Meaning, New Meaning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Power, Remembers, Sad Eyes, Scared, She, Smile, Step Forward, Step-By-Step, Strength, Survive, Talk, Tears, The Past, This Way, Ties, Times, Told, Torment, Understood, Unfolds, Walk, Walking Alone, Worthy, Years
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First Principles: If the Laws Are To Be Trampled Upon With Impunity, and A Minority Is To Dictate To the Majority, There Is An End Put At One Stroke To Republican Government
“If the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchy and Confusion, Dictate, End, First Principles, George Washington, Impunity, Law, Majoirty, Minority, One Stroke, Republican Government, Trample
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Thought For the Day: Wishing To Be Friends Is Quick Work, But Friendship Is A Slow Ripening Fruit
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
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Tagged Aristotle, Friends, Friendship, Fruit, Quick Work, Ripe, Thought For the Day, Wish
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That I Might Be of Service
That I Might Be of Serviceby Michael DoyleJesus is the holy and sacred nameOf the one who took away my shamePowerful enough to break every chainRefreshing my life like the pouring rainEvery day begins on my kneesTalking to God who … Continue reading
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Tagged Believing and Loving, Belong, Break Every Chain, Breath, Brings, Conversation, Devastation, Died To Save Sinners, Each New Day, Every Day, Eyes, Forgive, His Purpose, Holy, Jesus, Knees, Living Possibility, Mistakes, My Life, My Savior, Name, Open, Pleas, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Refresh, Sacred, Service, Shame, Sing, Skies, Song, Talking To God, Trust, Wonder, Worthy
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First Principles: Liberty Consists In the Freedom To Do Everything Which Injures No One Else
“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Exercise, First Principles, Freedom, Injure, Liberty, Mankind, Marquis de Lafayette, Natural Rights, No Limits, No One Else, Other Members, Same Rights, Society
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