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First Principles: If Virtue and Knowledge Are Diffused Among the People, They Will Never Be Enslav’d. This Will Be Their Great Security
“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779 This quote is from Samuel Adams’s letter to James Warren … Continue reading
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Tagged Difffused, Enslaved, First Principles, Focus, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Guarantee, James Warren, Knowledge, Letter, Liberty, Morality, Recognize, Republic, Resist, Samuel Adams, Security, Society, The People, Tyranny, Viritue, Widespread
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Thought For the Day: The Wisest Man Is He Who Does Not Fancy That He Is So At All
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” – Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711), in Satires, also known as Satire 4 (1716) The most authentic wisdom is humility, which recognizes … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Best Path, Blinding Factor, Educate, Fancy, First Step, Grow, Healthy Skepticism, Humility, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learn, Limitation, Man, New Experience, Question Authority, Satire 4, self-improvement, Social Media, Socratic Paradox, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Wisdom, Wise
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In the Shadows
In the Shadowsby Michael DoyleThe beginning was an image of allA modern miracle held in mystified aweUntil life’s illusion lost its intensityAnd the desire for death grew in complexityThe face of horror pulls at mankindAs though in this darkness we … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Angst, Audience, Awe, Beginning, Big Bang, Blood, Book of Satan, Charmingly Perverse, Children of the Night, Claw, Complexity, Creation and Destruction, Damnation, Darkness, Death, Desires, Diabolical Forces, Eternal Punishment, Face of Horror, Fear, Gasp, Good and Evil, Halloween, Image, Imagination, Immorality, Intensity, Joined, Leaves, Life's Illusion, Mankind, Mephisto, Metropolis, Mirrored Twin, Modern Miracle, Need, Night, Persevere, Plays For Laughs, Poetry and Poems, Power of Light, Protection, Proximity, Read, Rise, Rotting Glory, Salvation, Shadow, Shadows, Spirit of Darkness, Story, Substance, Talisman, Tears, The Crucifix, Together, Tread, Universe
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Affirmation
Affirmationby Michael DoyleThere’s a sound of freedomThat celebrates the kingdomThere is one thing understoodOur God is faithful and goodAll the good that is done In the name of the SonEvery answered prayer is an affirmationA shout of joy giving confirmationIn … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Answered Prayer, Broken Soul, Capable, Confirmation, Control, Faith, Free, Freedom, God, Gratitude, Heal, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hold, King, Kingdom, Life, Lonely Road, Not Alone, Poetry and Poems, Right Attitude, Sing, Son, The Lord, Understood
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First Principles: The Boisterous Sea of Liberty Is Never Without A Wave
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” – Thomas Jefferson (1820)
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Happy Halloween 2024!!
May you and each of you have the happiest and spookiest of Halloween this year! From my family to yours, Happy Halloween 2024!!
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Tagged 2024, Family, Happy, Happy Halloween, Spooky, Thought For the Day, You and Each of You
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Thought For the Day: Where There Is No Imagination There Is No Horror
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
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Divination
Divinationby Michael DoyleIs it true that only foolsCast aside all the rules?And what kind of wreckDoes life become living by the deck?A spooky basement points the directionThat reveals the cloth of divinationHand painted arcana mixes with astrologyIt is needed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcana, Astrology, Basement, Candle, Clarity, Coincidence, Combination, Crazy, Dark Art, Dark Design, Death and Darkness, Deception, Demonic Tale, Design, Desire, Direction, Divination, Drunken Children, Equal Weight, Evil, False Track, Fate, Fear, Fire, Fools, Forecast, Forsaken, Friends, Gasoline, Grow, Harshness, High Priestess, Impulse, Investigate, Lack of Control, Magician's Bag, Must, No Turning Back, Painted Glory, Path Undone, Pity, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prevail, Priestess, Reading, Readings, Risk, Rules, Runaway Train, Sincerity, Spirituality, Story, Sympathy, Taken, Tarot, Tarot Deck, Tear, Traces, Tricks, True, Trust, Wait, Wreck, Wrong Light, Zodiac
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Thought For the Day: Double, Double Toil and Trouble; Fire Burn, and Cauldron Bubble
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” – William Shakespeare ,Act 4, Scene 1of MacBeth
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Tagged Cauldron Bubble, Double, Fire Burn, Macbeth, Thought For the Day, Toil, Trouble, William Shakespeare
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First Principles: The Only Maxim of A Free Government Ought To Trust No Man Living With Power To Endanger the Public Liberty
“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – John Adams, 2nd US president (30 Oct 1735-1826)
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