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First Principles: There Are More Quarrels Smothered By Just Shutting Your Mouth, and Holding It Shut, Than By All the Wisdom In the World
“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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Thought For the Day: It Is What You Read When You Don’t Have To That Determines What You Will Be When You Can’t Help It
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”― Oscar Wilde
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Whatever the Day’s Length
Whatever the Day’s Lengthby Michael DoyleWhatever the day’s lengthMy joy in the Lord gives me strengthI say this in all that I speakFrom the ocean shore to the mountain’s peakGod is present in my every dayHe is here as I … Continue reading
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First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As the Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives
“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives” – Ulysses S. Grant
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Thought For the Day: People Who Love Literature Have At Least Part of Their Minds Immune From Indoctrination. If You Read, You Can Learn To Think For Yourself
“People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.” – Doris Lessing
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Thought For the Day: Rules For Happiness: Something To Do, Someone To Love, Something To Hope For
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” – Immanuel Kant
First Principles: Before Any Man Can Be Considered As A Member of Civil Society, He Must Be Considered As Subject of the Governor or the Universe
“It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage…Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.” – James … Continue reading
In All My Living Days
In All My Living Daysby Michael DoyleIn all my living daysI will lift my voice in praiseI’m overjoyed by what I’ve foundHappily blessed, chasing it aroundAll because He roseAs every wiseman knowsHe took our sins from usAnd we know this … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Do Not Wait For Leaders; Do It Alone, Person To Person
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
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