“Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.” – Thomas De Quincey, writer (15 Aug 1785-1859)
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Thought For the Day: Solitude, Though It May Be Silent As Light, Is Like Light, the Mightiest of Agencies; For Solitude Is Essential To Man
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respected. No Man Is Safe In His Opinions, His Person, His Faculties, or His Possessions
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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Thought For the Day: The Fruit Derived From Labor Is the Sweetest of Pleasures
“The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.” – Luc de Clapiers (1715-1747)
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is More Desirable Than To Be Released From An Affliction, But Nothing Is More Frightening Than To Be Divested of A Crutch
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.” – James Baldwin (1924-1987)
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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington (1790)
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Thought For the Day: Our Own Heart, and Not Other Men’s Opinions Form Our True Honor
“Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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First Principles: It Is the Madness of Folly, To Expect Mercy From Those Who Have Refused To Do Justice
“It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” – Thomas Paine (1776)
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Thought For the Day: If the Vaccines Work, Why Insist That Inoculated People Need To Be Masked?
“If the vaccines work, why insist that inoculated people need to be masked?” – Anonymously Just About Every Rational Person Who Follows Real Science….
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First Principles: They That Can Give Up Essential Liberty To Purchase A Little Temporary Safety, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety
“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin (1759)
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Storybook Kind of Love
Storybook Kind of Love
by Michael Doyle
She wants a storybook
Kind of love –
Only she wants it
With dirty pictures
It only took one look
To dream along the something of –
Need, …craven at first bite
Her painted lights hypnotized my mind
She was a Sunday worship
Kind of dazzling princess
With her high heels left on
Behind the mask for the taking
Hoping my rook could take the kingship
Because she was looking priceless
With all her movements turned on
And not the kind others could be faking
Coloring my world with her broken
Crayons scrawling things unspoken
Affections given meant beyond token
With screen shots that won’t phase me
Stolen moments always feel golden
Filled with silent screams of passion
We’d each be so lucky by attraction
Fallen together she is my favored distraction
(c) August 9, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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