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Thought For the Day: When the Eyes Say One Thing, and the Tongue Another, A Practiced Man Relies On the Language of the First
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First Principles: A People Who Mean To Be Free Must Be Prepare To Meet Danger In Person, and Not Rely Upon the Fallacious Protection of Armies
“A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies.” – Edmund Randolph
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She Learns To Survive
She Learns To Survive
by Michael Doyle
To her, I'm her father
As I watch my daughter
Walking alone in the night
She's always been my light
But it wasn't always this way
She's haunted by the day
These moments hidden inside
Behind her fragile pride
He took her innocence
I've seen it in her eyes
The feeling is so intense
I've felt her agonize
She hides it inside
Because she's afraid to confide
All those times that she's cried
Alone in her heart wish she could hide
She almost took her life that night
Feeling abandoned and in total fright
Fighting the torment inside her head
And.. I held her hand in mine to fight off her dread
She didn't need to talk, I understood
As maybe only a loving father could
Step[-by-step, she's to walk in life again
I walk beside her and hold her when...
She remembers how he took her innocence
The look on her face is scared and intense
I see the meaning in her beautiful sad eyes
As she tries to be brave though she agonizes
Only in these past few years
I've seen her blossom despite her tears
Feeling she's worthy of love and she knows
I smile softly as she steps forward to grow
Even in the darkest depth of night
She knows she's a child of the light
I watch as the strength returns and her life unfolds
I tell her I that I love her; she knows before she's told
The light in the end still holds her innocence
She has moved past his intended offense
And I see new meaning in her powerful eyes
As her walk becomes bolder and the past looses its ties
(c) February 19, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: If the Laws Are To Be Trampled Upon With Impunity, and A Minority Is To Dictate To the Majority, There Is An End Put At One Stroke To Republican Government
“If the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.” – George Washington
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Thought For the Day: Wishing To Be Friends Is Quick Work, But Friendship Is A Slow Ripening Fruit
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
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That I Might Be of Service
That I Might Be of Service
by Michael Doyle
Jesus is the holy and sacred name
Of the one who took away my shame
Powerful enough to break every chain
Refreshing my life like the pouring rain
Every day begins on my knees
Talking to God who hears my pleas
Through they're not needed in this conversation
His holiness overcomes all devastation
He is worthy of every song
And I know where I belong
With every breath that I take
My savior knows and forgives every mistake
In wonder, I look toward the skies
Believing and loving His sight in my eyes
I know that He died to save sinners like me
He opened my eyes to the living possibility
That maybe I might be of service
And so I live to do His purpose
He is worthy of every song that I sing
As I put my trust in each new day He brings
(c) February 18, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Liberty Consists In the Freedom To Do Everything Which Injures No One Else
“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.” – Marquis de Lafayette
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Thought For the Day: Stars Are Holes In the Sky From Which the Light of the Infinite Shines
“Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.” – Confucius
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First Principles: Sensible of the Importance of Christian Piety and Virtue To the Order and Happiness of A State, I Cannot But Earnestly Commend To You Every Measure For Their Support and Encouragement
“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement … Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.” – John Hancock
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