“A man’s heart is determined by his speech.” – Matthew 12:34
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Thought For the Day: A Man’s Heart Is Determined By His Speech
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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit, and Intelligence of the Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” – Joseph Story (1833)
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Blind Side
Blind Side
by Michael Doyle
Four seconds from the snap of the ball
A life can change in ways we'll later recall
In four seconds, a life can really change
As the players on the field rearrange
But such players come along for the ride
With nowhere else to go and with no pride
Passed along like some unwanted stray
The kid needed a break given him that day
When you've given up hope with nowhere to go
All that's left is a steady gaze and a ball to throw
White walls are often thrown into proverbial place
Holding back the dreams we're too afraid to chase
The tough breaks are the only ones that seem to come
When you're quiet, big, and thought of as dumb
Everyone has their way to come to learn
It's up to the rest of us to see this and discern
Looking deep into horizons with distant eyes
It isn't so hard if only we try to recognize
The truth barely viewable within the web of lies
Of twisted ways gotten between exasperated sights
Welcomed by strangers even into their home
The wounded warrior is no longer left alone
But begins with the hope that waits until morning
That we might yet come with the light without warning
It's there in the light that is the glimmer kept in sight
To the dreams that come to make everything all right
A Thanksgiving that is completed in a dessert of grace
When those who choose to love look into God's good face
(c) November 24, 2022 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Gratitude Is Not Only the Greatest of Virtues, But the Parent of All Others
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”–- Cicero
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Thought For the Day: There Is Not Such A Cradle of Democracy Upon the Earth As the Free Public Library, This Republic of Letters
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration”. -Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919)
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In the Favor of the Gods
In the Favor of the Gods
by Michael Doyle
The gods favor those
Who do not wait
For the favor of the gods
And for those who have chose
To create their own fate
Regardless of the odds
I laid thinking so loudly
That I could not sleep
Waiting for the sun to arrive
The battle would come proudly
The blood, it would run deep
In the end, only a few would survive
Taking destiny in reins
The power flows in our hands
We will make the world our own
The glory rises in our veins
Across the forests of the lands
This ride will place a king on his throne
These are the paths come by honestly
Where at last, I know who I'm to be
We are who it is that we are
It is in our lives lived in true dignity
Hand to heart touched in our fidelity
And our truths are written on the stars
(c) November 23, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: I Learned That Courage Was Not the Absence of Fear, But the Triumph Over it. The Brave Man Is Not He Who Does Feel Afraid, But He Who Conquers That Fear
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” – former South African President Nelson Mandela
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First Principles: It Is A Happy Circumstance In Human Affairs That Evils Which Are Not Cured In One Way Will Cure Themselves In Some Other
“It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Sinclair, 1791
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My Business Is the Future
My Business Is the Future
by Michael Doyle
Like other dreamers
My concern isn't the present
That's for erratic schemers
And others that we grow to resent
My business is the future
Not as an oracle but as one who creates
Looking for the right things to nurture
Engaged in what it is that fascinates
It seems that past this field of schemes
There are too many shallows to wade in
With their chaotic themes
Always work to loop and then
This bed of thugs that we call humanity
Are mostly things greater beings that are of no concern
Because the history lived has been near lunacy
It's been the rare person who sees this and discerns
With the peeling of an apple, slice by slice
History needs an author to rewrite its pages
It's a screenplay off-script but held in its vice
To right this wrong quickly will take the wisest sages
(c) November 22, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Be Water, My Friend
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” – Bruce Lee
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