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The Eye of the Storm
The Eye of the Stormby Michael DoyleTo find the eye of the passing storm in life’s wildernessIs to find quiet hope in the chaos approached in the stillnessWhere the arts find our attention despite all life’s distractionsThe place where somehow … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Only Art Penetrates What Pride, Passion, Intelligence and Habit Erect On All Sides – the Seeming Realities of This World
“Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit erect on all sides – the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, … Continue reading
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Tagged All Sides, Art, False, Genuine, Habit, Hidden, Hints, Left, Life, Nothing, Persistent Intuitions, Practical Ends, Pride, Proust, Receive, Saul Bellow, Seeming Reality, Sight, Terminology, Thought For the Day, True Impressions, World
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First Principles: It Is A Principle Incorporated Into the Settled Policy of America, That As Peace Is Better Than War, War Is Better Than Tribute
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – James Madison (1816)
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Tagged America, Better, First Principles, Incorporate, James Madison, Peace, Principle, Settled Policy, Tribute, War
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First Principles: The General Spread of the Light of Science Has Already Laid Open To Every View the Palpable Truth, That the Mass of Mankind Has Not Been Born With Saddles On Their Backs
“The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready … Continue reading
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Tagged Backs, Born, Favored Few, First Principles, Grace of God, Legitimate, Light of Science, Mass of Mankind, Palpable Truth, Ride, Saddle, Spread, Thomas Jefferson, View
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Wind River
Wind Riverby Michael DoyleThe honest man finds solaceIn nature’s imperfectionsKnowing that nothing is flawlessHowever far man looks in any directionIn this lies the true beautyFelt as if compelled by dutyWith each passing year in successionMother Nature teaches her lessonsAs a … Continue reading
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Tagged Big City, Blanket, Bled Out, Bruise, Day, Direction, Duty, Felt, Fight Hard, Find, Flawless, Hard Way, Help, Honest Man, Know How, Lesson, Life-Giver, Lose, Memories, Mother Nature, Pass, Passing Year, Poetry and Poems, Slip Away, Snow, Solace, Study, Succession, Tracks, True Beauty, Way, Wind River, Winds, Winter's Snow, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: The Heart of A Mother Is A Deep Abyss, At the Bottom of Which You Will Always Find Forgiveness
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)
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Tagged Abyss, Bottom, Deep, Find, Forgiveness, Heart, Honore de Balzac, Mother, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Law and Liberty Cannot Rationally Become the Objects of Our Love, Unless They First Become of the Objects of Our Knowledge
“Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.” – James Wilson (1790)
Politically Incorrect Revisited
Politically Incorrect Revisitedby Michael DoyleIs there some kind of fearThat we the people might persevereInto the rapid-fire shaking upCrystalized by making upToo many improvised linesSliding through topical landminesIn an approximation of real-timeThat edges up into the sublimeIt’s that take no … Continue reading →