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Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt. IX: Released From This Evil
Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt IX: Released From this Evilby Michael DoyleA chain smoked cigar puffed on to make amendsBetween two estranged who had once been friendsTo be young again and to set sail into the dawnUntil one realizes it … Continue reading
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Tagged Amend, Attic, Bleed, Breath, Cage, Cardinal Sins, Cigar, Clutch, Crimson, Dawn, Days, Death, Devil, Devotion, Discipline, Dorian Gray, Emotions, Enslavement, Evill, Freedom, Friends, God, Gothic, Hellfire, His Evil, Oath, Old Friend, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Practice, Preach, Rage, Reflections, Release, Released, Sloth, Tears, Toys, Tragic, Transform, Wishes
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First Principles: If the Provisions of the Constitution Can Be Set Aside By An Act of Congress, Where Is the Course of Usurpation To End?
“If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Most Intense Conflicts…Are Needed To Produce Valuable and Lasting Results
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts, and their conflagration, which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.” – C. G. … Continue reading
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Tagged C.G. Jung, Calm, Conflagration, Conflict, Intense, Lasting Results, Overcome, Produce, Security, Sense, Thought For the Day, Value
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Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind
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First Principles: The Press Is Impotent When It Abandons Itself To Falsehood
“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805)
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Tagged Abandon, Civil Liberty, Equal, Established, Fact, Falsehood, First Principles, Friend, Impotent, Leave, Noble Institution, Others, Pale of Truth, Press, Recall, Restore, Science, Strength, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is So Difficult As Not Deceiving Oneself
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
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Tagged Deceive, Difficult, Ludwig Wittenstein, Nothing, Self, Thought For the Day
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Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant
Well Done, Good and Faithful Servantby Michael DoyleFinding peace in the house of the LordHaving finally put away ways of the swordTime spent pursuing the Godly thingsAnd the blessings this bringsEach of us giving talents and giftsHealing the wounds and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Blue Sky, Bow, Day, Difficult, Faithful, Faithful Steward, Forward, Godly Things, Good, Gratitude, Heal, House of the Lord, Keeping the Faith, Lift, Lord's Word, Ministry, Open, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prisons, Promises, Rifts, Servant, Sword, Time Spent, Walk, Well Done, Wounds
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Thought For the Day: Socialism of Any Type Leads To A Destruction of the Human Spirit
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Destruction, Human Spirit, Lead, Socialism, Thought For the Day, Total
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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Being the Gift of God Almighty, It Is Not In the Power of Man To Alienate This Gift, and Voluntarily Become A Slave
“If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienate, Fear, First Principles, Fraud, Gift, Gift of God, Great End of Society, Law of Reason, Mankind, Men, Mistake, Natural Right, Power of Man, Renounce, Right To Freedom, Samuel Adams, Slave, Volunteer
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Reflections On Dorian Gray, Part VII: Remembrances
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Part VII: Remembrancesby Michael DoyleThe plague burns through old London TownWhile God casts his eyes aside with a frownObsessed with frightening visions of Sibyle VaineDorian crumbles perched on the brink of going insaneRemembrances of her and … Continue reading
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Tagged Crumble, Dorian Gray, Eyes, Frown, God, Guilt, Insane, London, Morose, Obsess, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Rain, Reflections, Remembrance, Satan, Shame, Shine, Sibyle Vaine, Tears, True Love
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