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A Lament for Michael the Archangel
A Lament of Michael,the Archangelby Michael Doyle The day after celebrating the birth of a daughterI return again to the celebration of the FatherRevisiting instruction in the ways of the kingdomAnd a memory of the better man that I’ve become … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Authority, Become, Better Man, Birth, Blessed Hour, Celebration, Compassion, Daughter, Deception, Defeat, Defender, Ends of the Earth, Father, Father's Feet, Head of the Church, Hell, Indwell, Instruction, Instrument, Jesus, Joy, Lament, Lessons, Memory, Michael, Michael the Archangel, Mirth, Peace, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Power, Power of God, Protector, Recall, Reminder, Satan and His Minions, Serpent, Sight, Sought, Strength, Taught, Time, Ultimately, Walk, Ways of the Kingdom, Wicked World, Wisdom, Witnesses
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A Rispetto of Loneliness
Featured again is a poem form obtained from the weekly Short Form Poetry Workshop on Linden Lab’s virtual platform known as Second Life. This week the form was the rispetto. What then is a rispetto? It is a Tuscan folk … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Color, Commands, Conceptions, Curved, Embrace, Face, Feel, Folk Verse, Hard, Hearts, Imaginary, Knowing, LandMines, Loneliness, Moments, Poetry and Poems, Politian, Rhyme Scheme, Rispetto, Short Form Poetry Workshop, Showing, Straight Lines, Strambotto, Thinking, Thoughts, Time, Treasonous, Tripping, Tuscan, Understand, Walk
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Thought For the Day: The Only Sure Weapon Against Bad Ideas Is Better Ideas. The Source of Better Ideas Is Wisdom.
“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Whitney Griswold, Always, Bad Ideas, Banned, Better Ideas, Books, Burn, Censor, Ideas, Inquisitor, Jail, Long Run of History, Lost, Only, Source, Sure Weapon, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams (1808)
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Tagged Cease, Country, First Principles, John Adams, Lives, Obligations
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First Principles: Children Should Be Educated and Instructed In the Principles of Freedom
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” – John Adams, Defense of Constitutions, 1787
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Tagged Children, Defense of Constitutions, Educated, First Principles, Freedom, Instructed, John Adams, Principles
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Thought For the Day: The Great Man Is He Who, In the Midst of the World, Keeps With Perfect Sweetness the Independence of Solitude
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the … Continue reading
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Tagged Crwod, Easy, Great Man, Independence, Keep, Live, Midst, Perfect Sweetness, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Solitude, Thought For the Day, World, World's Opinion
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First Principles: It Has Been A Source of Great Pain To Me To Have Met With So Many Among My Opponents Who Had Not the Liberality To Distinguish Between Political and Social Opposition
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
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Tagged Distinguish, First Principles, Great Pain, Hatred, Liberality, Many, Opponents, Person, Political, Political Opinions, Social Opposition, Source, Thomas Jefferson, Transferred
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Thought For the Day: No Life Ever Grows Great Until It Is Focused, Dedicated, Disciplined
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, … Continue reading
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Tagged Confined, Dedicate, Disciplined, Drive, Focused, Gas, Grows Great, Harnessed, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Horse, Life, Light, Niagara, Power, Stream, Thought For the Day, Tunneled, Turned
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In Accordance With His Will
Based on the sermon that I listened to here: In Accordance With His Willby Michael Doyle From my lips, I proclaim your praiseAs I do in all of my passing daysCrying out with joy and gladnessPrayer helps me escape this … Continue reading
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Tagged Accordance, All Things Must Be Done, Anger, Awake, Care and Protection, Commands, Commit, Depths, Desert, Devotion, Do the Right Things, Eyes, Giving, God, God's Footsteps, God's Instrument, Hardened heart, His Hand, His Will, Holy Way, Human Beings, Humbled, Important, In the End, Joy, Lips, Love, Madness, Morning Light, Night, Ocean, Paid Full Bill, Passing Days, Passions, Peace, Perpetual Sorrow, Poetry and Poems, Ponder, Praise, Prayer, Provision, Receive, Reliance, Right Direction, Seek, Self-Deceive, Sincere, Son, Stranger, Stray, Test, The Lord's Prayer, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Troubled, Unseen
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Thought For the Day: Students Learn From Gutless Academic Administrators That Mob Rule Is the Way To Get What You Want – and To Silence Those Who Disagree With You
“Our educational system may not teach students much math or science, but students learn from gutless academic administrators that mob rule is the way to get what you want — and to silence those who disagree with you.” – Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic Administrators, Disagree, Educational System, Learn, Math, Mob Rule, Science, Silence, Students, Teach, Thomas Sowell, Thought For the Day
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