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First Principles: Therefore, As We Have Opportunity, Let Us Do Good To All People, Especially To Those Who Belong To the Family of Believers
“Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.” – Galatians 6:10
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These Are the Days of Us
Dedicated to my youngest daughter who I very dearly love and very nearly lost two years ago today… These Are the Days of Usby Michael DoyleThese are the days of usI learned this from a childWho gave this wisdom becauseThis … Continue reading
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Tagged ABCs, All the Things, Ascendant, Because, Beguile, Belief, Blame, Burn, Child, Days of Us, Discern, Dreams, Each Other, Faith and Love, Favor, Fist, Fit, Glove, God, Hate, Important, Learrn, Matters, Meaning, My Student, One Another, One Lesson, Play, Poetry and Poems, Put Aside, Real Love, Reprise, Shame, Teach, Theme, Wisdom
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In All My Remaining Days
In All My Remaining Daysby Michael DoyleNo matter what the seasonI’ve found that Jesus is the reasonHe has no other rivalAs the key to my survivalI call on His holy nameAnd if it is all the sameI will give him … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Depth, Devotion, End of My Days, Fight, Generation, Healing, Holy Name, Inner Truth, Jehovah, Jesus, Key, Love, Matter, Mountains, Ocean, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Prayers, Reason, Remaining Days, Revealing, Rival, Same, Sea, Season, Soul, Surival, Veneration
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First Principles: Our First Object Should Therefore Be, To Leave Open To Him All the Avenues To Truth. The Most Effectual…Is the Freedom of the Press
“Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual …is the freedom of the press.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Every Man Is Guilty of All the Good He Didn’t Do
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.” -Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778)
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Tagged Did Not Do, Every Man, Good, Guilty, Thought For the Day, Voltaire
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Something About Respect
Something About Respectby Michael DoyleIt was a different lifeA different sceneLife was toughAnd the streets were meanLife was about respectAsking for the something better to be hadWas maybe a bit too much to expectBut the beauty seen could make him … Continue reading
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Tagged Backrow, Beauty, Bluebird, Catch My Fall, Champions, Content, Desire, Despearation, Different Life, Doubt, Drag, Expect, Face, Fall, Flirt, Glad, Had, Heartbreak, Life's Games, Made, Making Love, Mean, Melancholy, Mistake, Moment, Night, Nothing At All, Picture Show, Play, Poetry and Poems, Proverbial, Rainbow, Respect, Scene, Seen, Shadows, Something, Something Better, Stand, Streets, The Way, The World, Tough, Unafraid
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First Principles: Wish Not So Much To Live Long As To Live Well
“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – Benjamin Franklin (1746)
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Thought For the Day: The Truth Isn’t Always Beauty, But the Hunger For It Is
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” – Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (20 Nov 1923-2014)”
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Thought For the Day: One Cannot Hire A Hand; the Whole Man Always Comes With It
“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.” – Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (19 Nov 1909-2005)
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Tagged Always, Hand, Hire, One, Peter Drucker, Thought For the Day, Whole Man
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