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Thought For the Day: A Time Is Coming When Men Will Go Mad, and When They See Someone Who Is Not Mad, They Will Attack Him, saying,”You Are Mad; Your Are Not Like Us.”
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’” – Anthony the Great Quite the sage, he was … Continue reading
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First Principles: Common Sense Without Education Is Better Than Education Without Common Sense
“Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Darkness Fallen
Darkness Fallenby Michael DoyleStretching my day past midnight,I’m grasping toward the morning light.There’s just one more thing to do,Planting dreams to know what can be true.Living my freedom in the moment’s truth,I think back on the days of my youth.Outside … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, Ancient Wisdom, Angels, Awake, Brings, Broken Souls, Clock, Comfort, Darkness, Day, Dream, Fall, Fallen, Freedom, God's Love, Grasp, Heaven Above, Ivory Towers, Know, Lie, Love, Melody, Midnight, Moon, Morning, Morning Light, Muse, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Recall, Rock, Sky, Sorrow, Stars, Stretch, Stride, Strings, Taken In, Tick, Tomorrow, True, Universe, Wall, Whisper, Window, Youth
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Thought For the Day: If Somehow, I Can, Before I Leave This Earth, Combine My Absolutely Mad Freedom and Excitement With Truth, Then I Will Have Done Something
“If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.” – Robert Wyeth
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First Principles: In A Time of Peace There Can, At All Events, Be No Justification For the Creation of A Permanent Debt By the Federal Government
“In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.“ … Continue reading
The Will To Survive
The Will To Surviveby Michael DoyleIn a soldier’s final score,Only the dead know the end of war.Shrouded in the sadness of despair,Life is hobbled by a world so unfair.We keep on fighting shadowsThough each of us is certain and knowsThe … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Battle, Chance, Crime, Dead, Despair, Family, Generals, Ghost, Glory, History, Infernal War, Jesus, Life, Line, Love, Morning Light, Poetry and Poems, Priority, Rumor, Score, Shadow, Soldier, Story, Survival, Survive, Truth Be Told, Twilight, Unfair, War, Will, World
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Thought For the Day: The Heart, Like the Mind, Has A Memory. And In It Are Kept the Most Precious Keepsakes
“The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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First Principles: I Am One But Still I Am One. I Cannot Do Everything, But Still I Can Do Something
“I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.” – Edward Everett
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This That I Know
This That I Knowby Michael DoyleUnbroken promises add up to good,I know, and it’s understood.His faithfulness walks me throughIn everything that I say and do.It’s the known that I know,That my God will never let me go.I stand on His … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Crown, Faithfulness, His Word, Know, Poetry and Poems, Read, Rescue, Sublime, Trust, Truth Shines, Unbroken Promises, Understood
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First Principles: No People Can Be Bound To Acknowledge and Adore the Invisible Hand Which Conducts the Affairs of Men More Than the People of the United States
“(I)t would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, … Continue reading
