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First Principles: In All Very Numerous Assemblies, of Whatever Character Composed, Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)
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(Questions of Life) However Inspired
(Questions of Life) However Inspiredby Michael DoyleHowever it was inspiredLife came to be firedSparked a billion years agoAnd continued on in its flowThough no man was there Science believes it clearNeurons appeared 400,000 year agoBut who can truly know?From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Days, Better Ways, Billion Years, Billion Years Ago, Brink, Brought Together, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Disbelief, Drink, Feeling the Fools, Fired, First Cause, Flashpoints, Flow, Formation, Full-Tilt, Gift, God, Handcuffed, Hands, Information, Inspired, Least Hesitation, Life, Losing Position, Lucy, Major Fail, Mature, Mother Nature, Near Miss, Necessary, Neurons, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Predators, Primordial, Question, Questions, Sad, Science, Smackdown, Splash, Stare, Think, Thought, Through, Time, Traction, Transition, Turned Out Better, Two Neurons, Warning, Wonder
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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhorrence of Injustice, Activity, Ambition, Capacity, Children, Courage, Cre, Creep, dd, Eelevate, Excel, Faculty, Family, First Principles, Grovel, Growth, Habitual Contempt, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, John Adams, Life, Lives, Love, Meanness, Minds, Nature, Poetry, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: I Realize That Patriotism Is Not Enough. I Must Have No Hatred Or Bitterness Towards Anyone
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone”. -Edith Cavell, nurse and humanitarian (4 Dec 1865-1915)
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The Meekness of His Glory
The Meekness of His Gloryby Michael DoyleAs Emmanuel, He walked among usAs it was, simply becauseHe wanted humanity to rise to the gloryThat is the sum of the gospel storyJohn’s narrative came from a unique perspectiveTangible as a tale of … Continue reading
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Tagged Actus Purus, Change, Compassioin, Conception, Credibility, Doctrine of Incarnation, Emmanuel, Ethos, Express, Flesh, Freedom, Gospel Story, Heartstrings, His Glory, Humanity, Immeasurable, Immutable, Inspiration, John, Logos, Meekness, Mercy, Narrative, Pathos, Pattern, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Reason, Resurrection, Sages, Strength, Sum, Tangible, the Word, Tomb, Triune, Two Miracles, Unchanging, Womb
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Thought For the Day: Either Human Intelligence Ultimately Owes Its Origin To Mindless Matter, Or There Is A Creator
“Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter, or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.” – John Lennox
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First Principles: For God So Loved the World That He Gave His One and Only Son, That Whoever Believes In Him Shall Not Perish But Have Eternal Life
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”– John 3:16
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The World Is Full of Dreamers
The World Is Full of Dreamersby Michael DoyleThe world’s history is played out on stagesSome of which have filled a thousand pagesBut these pages are the stuff of unequal dreamsThose who dream by daylight do so as it seemsNot with … Continue reading
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Tagged Capable, Clarity, Daylight, Dreamers, History, Lawrence of Arabia, Leadership, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Possible, Stage, T.E. Lawrence, Unequal Dreams, Vanity, Vision, World
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Thought For the Day: The Art of Poetry Is To Touch the Passions, and Its Duty To Lead Them On the Side of Virtue
“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.” – William Cowper
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First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect or Calculate Upon Real Favors From Nation to Nation
“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.“ – George Washington (1796)
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