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Thought For the Day: One Father Is More Than A Hundred Schoolmasters
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – English Proverb
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Tagged English Proverb, Father, George Herbert, Hundred, More, One, Quote, Schoolmasters, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Only A Virtuous People Are Capable of Freedom. As Nations Become Corrupt and Vicious, They Have More Need of Masters
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Capable, Corrupt, First Principles, Freedom, Masters, Nation, Need, Vicious, Virtuous People
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Thought For the Day: Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness: Only Light Can Do That. Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate: Only Love Can Do That
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tagged Darkness, Drive, Hate, Light, Love, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: I Think We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson (1824)
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Tagged First Principles, Government, Industrious, Labor, Necessary, Parasites, Think Machinery, Thomas Jefferson
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A Hymn For A Winter’s Day
A Hymn For A Winter’s Dayby Michael DoyleLeaning by the firesidePutting away my vain prideFear is not my wayI’ll follow the Lord in all my daysGod’s house is my dwellingGod’s love is my true ceilingAs I find my heart in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Burn, Ceiling, Darkest Day, Day, Days, Death, Dwelling, Fear, Fireside, Follow, God's House, Heart, Him, History, Humanity, Hymn, Jesus, Joy, King, Lean, Light, Lord, Love, Moments, Naigate, Not My Way, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pride, Put Away, Rolled Away, Savior, Silent, Sing, Stars, Stay, Stone, The Lord, Victory, Winter's Day
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Thought For the Day: I Rely On the Promise, God Is Kind To Women, Fools, and Drunk People
“I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.” – Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Tagged Drunk People, Fools, God, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kind, Promise, Rely, Thought For the Day, Women
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First Principles: We Know That In All Things God Works For the Good of Those Who Love Him, Who Have Been Called According To His Purpose
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28 (NIV)
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Tagged Accord, All Things, Called, First Principles, God, Good, His, Know, Love, Purpose, Romans 8:28 (NIV), We, Work
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A Graduated Conflict of Morality
A Graduated Conflict of Moralityby Michael DoyleThe late 1960s were a time of generational conflictWith more moral questions than principles to inflictRestrictions on all the choices between the rightAnd wrong of what was needed to get through the nightTo some, … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blown Smoke, Choice, Clean Cut, Cling, Conflict, Daylight, Echoes, Experience, Fading Sight, Forgot, Generational Conflict, Graduate, Hues, Late 1960s, Life, Lost Passages, Measure, Merit, Moral Questions, Morality, Motivation, Neon Signs, Night, Pleasure, Pockets of Poetry, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Vieews, Principles, Question, Quirky, quotes, Restrictions, Revealing, Right, Search, Smile, Souls, Sounds of Silence, Spirituality, Stay the Same, Stuck In A Rut, Stupid, Time, Vision, Waves of Feeling, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Most Important Things We Learn At School Is the Fact That the Most Important Things Can’t Be Learned At School
“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.”– Haruki Murakami
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Tagged Can't Be Learned, Fact, Haruki Murakami, Learn, Most Important Things, School, Thought For the Day
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