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First Principles: Above All, Love Each Other Deeply, Because Love Covers Over A Multitude of Sins
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8 (New International Version)
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Tagged 1 Peter 4:8 (NIV), Above All, Cover, Deep, Each Other, First Principles, Love, Multitude, Sin
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Thought For the Day: Human Need Is Really A Great Spiritual Vacuum Which God Seeks To Fill
“Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill…With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum…Then the passage, … Continue reading
Under Lock and Key
Under Lock and Keyby Michael DoyleUnder lock and keyIs where I keep meHidden away so no one can seeThere in arcs of memoryShadowboxing with myselfThrough all the volumes on the shelfThere really isn’t much mysteryWhen we’re talking self historyRecollections that … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcs, Biology, Bleed, Bring, Constant Feeling, Darkness, Dread, Family Tree, Fear, Half Wrong, Heart, Hidden Away, Imprint, Light, Lock and Key, Me, Memory, Moment, Mystery, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Recollection, Right, Self History, Sense, Shadowboxing, Shelf, Silent, Slowness, Swing, Tomorrow, Volumes, Wonder
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First Principles: Nothing Is Easier Than Spending Public Money. It Does Not Appear To Belong To Anybody. The Temptation Is Overwhelming To Bestow It On Somebody.
“Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.” – President Calvin Coolidge (1873-1933)
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Tagged Anybody, Appear, Bestow, Calvin Coolidge, Easy, First Principles, Nothing, Public Money, Somebody, Spend, Temptation
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Thought For the Day: Courage Is the Greatest Of All the Virtues… If You Haven’t Courage, You May Not Have An Opportunity To Use Any of the Others
“Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” – English author Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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Tagged Courage, Great, Opportunity, Samuel Johnson, Thought For the Day, Virtue
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We’re Going To Make It
We’re Going To Make Itby Michael DoyleWhatever today’s bit of sorrowKeep holding on for tomorrowNot giving in to the gray skiesUntil you see the bright sunriseThat will greet your dreamsHeld together now taped at the seamsIn a world that even … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjustment, Alibis, Blame, Brave, Cheerfulness, Clueless, Dreams, Empty, Empty Pockets, Fear, Gratitude, Gray Skies, Greet, Holding On, Hope, Hopes and Dreams, Linger, Make Believe, Make It, New Day, New Norm, Newsmen, Optimism, Pessimism, Platitude, Poetry and Poems, Quarter, Refuge, Same, Seams, Shanty Town, Sing, Someday, Sorrow, Souls, Stay, Sunrise, Today, Together, Tomorrow, Warm, Warmth, We, Winter's Day, Wise, World
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First Principles: In the Supposed State of Nature, All Men Are Equally Bound By the Laws of Nature, Or To Speak More Properly, the Laws of the Creator
“In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.” – Samuel Adams
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Tagged All Men, Equal, First Principles, Laws of Nature, Laws of the Creator, Nature, Samuel Adams, State
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Thought For the Day: It Does Not Do To Leave A Live Dragon Out of Your Calculations, If You Live Near Him
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, novelist and philologist (3 Jan 1892-1973)
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Tagged Calculations, Does Not Do, Dragon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Live, Thought For the Day
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To Lean Out of Wandering
To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Back Forty, Bases, Celebration, Confirmation, Days, Decisions, East, Embrace, Failsures, Focus, Forgiven, Future, Ghosts, God's Ways, Gone, Grain, Hands, Haste, Hourglass, Important Battles, Joy, Juggle, Lean, Live, Living Our Prayer, Manage, Moment, Moments, Moses, Need, New Morning, Nowhere, Number, Nurture, Pains, Past, Paths, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Procrastination, Proper Care, Questions, Reason, Regret, Reset, Rhymes, Season, Seed, Self-Defeating, Shortly, Sins, Sow, Stock, Test, The End, Thief of Time, Time, Today, Traces, Wandering, Waste, West, Wheel, Wisdom
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