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First Principles: Despotism Often Presents Itself As the Repairer of All the Ills Suffered, the Support of Just Rights, Defender of the Oppressed, and Founder of Order
“Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.” – Alexis de Tocqueville — Anyone who has not yet cast their ballot in this … Continue reading →
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Tagged Administrative State, Alexis de Tocqueville, America, Attachment, Authority, Belief, Central Authority, Defender, Democracy, Democracy In America, Despotism, Elite, Equality, Equity, First Principles, Founder, Freedom, Governance, Ills, Kamala Harris, Majority, Monarchy, Nation, Needs and Perspectives, Oppressed, Order, Poetry, Politics, Poor, Population, Present, Privileged Class, Progression, Regression, Repairer, Republic, Rights, Servitude, Trump, Trump and Harris, Tyranny, Washington D.C.
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The Blood of Unrequited Tears
The Blood of Unrequited Tearsby Michael DoyleEven children book storiesHold whispers of former gloriesLike the Book of Life’s ResurrectionIf we follow the clues, we’ll find the connectionsA brave child will dare to readUsing his imagination to find where it leadsEven … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adventure, Arise, Attachment, Blood, Burning Fire, Children Book Stroies, Coax, Connection, Consequences, Curses, Damnation, Death and Pain, Despair, Disrepair, Doctor, Forgotten, Funeral Pyres, Hell, Hippocratic Oath, Hypocritic Snare, Imagination, Mercy, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Read, Tears
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First Principles: Every Man Who Loves Liberty Ought To Have It Ever Before His Eyes That He May Cherish In His Heart A Due Attachment to the Union of America
“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and … Continue reading →
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Tagged America, Attachment, Cherish, Country, Due Value, Every Man, Eyes, First Principles, Heart, James Madison, Liberty, Love, Peace, Preserve, Union
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Lessons From Alcestis
Lessons From Alcestisby Michael DoyleAlcestis was the fairest of daughtersMuch beloved by Pelias, her fatherSo too loved by her husband, AdmetusAnd of her son, the warrior EumelusFearing that death might come to soonMade Admetus err in bringing love to ruinFor … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ability, Action, Admetus, Affirmation, Alcestis, Amusement, Assembly, Athenians, Attachment, Awaken, Body and Blood, Breath, Chivalry, Christ, Citizen, Civic Performance, Clever, Communion, Complete, Confirmation, Credulity, Curse, Daughters, Death, Debts, Deeper Truth, Democracy, Destruction, Dionysus, Divine, Duty, Eight Labors, Emotions, Err, Essence, Eternal, Eumelus, Extipation, Father, Fear, Feeling, Fetility, First Desires, Forever, Forgiven, Freedom, Friendship, Gentiles and Pagans, Gentle Preparation, Gift of Immortality, Gift of Life, Glory, God So Loved This World, Grapes, Great Virtue, Healing, Hercules, Honor, Husband, Initiation, Instruction, King's Bride, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Light, Love, Love of a Good Woman, Madness, Mercy, Moderation, Mourning, Mute, Mystery, Noble, Obligation, Operatic, Passion, Pay, Pelias, Physician, Pity, Poetry and Poems, Point of Pride, Power, Profound Truth, Ransom, Ransom of Life, Reign, Religion, Reparation, Responsibility, Ruin, Sacrament, Sacred Reunion, Satisfaction, Saving Grace, Shrine of Eleusis, Sing, Son, Specter, Spring, Stoe, Sublime Beauty, Temerity, The Ransom Is Paid, Three Days, Tragedy, Truth, Vain, Vineyard, Voice, Ways of Gods, Wine, Winter, Yoke
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A Servant of His People
A Servant of His Peopleby Michael DoyleMy hat is off to Volodymyr ZelenskyAs with his courage, he steps into historyHe has consistently proven his fitnessAs the heroic man becomes a remarkable witnessOnce a comedian who commanded laughterHe has proven himself … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ambition, American Ride, Ammunition, Attachment, Blood and Soil, Bodies and Bicycles, Character, Courage, Deprivation, Diminutive Man, Elite, Embrace, Fall, Fate, Fight, Fire, Fitness, Fortitude, Gap, Grace, Historic Antecedent, Humble Everyman, Humility, Imminent, Life, Living Inspiration, Manipulation, One Ukraine, People, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preeminent, President, Pride, Proven, Russia, Russian Tanks, Seal, Servant, Single Statement, Soul, Step, Still Here, Street, Stress Test, Strife, Stumble, Suffering Fool, Suspicion, Ten Feet Tall, Terror, Thanks, Tomorrow, Tyranny of Corruption, Ukrainian Nation, Ukrainian People, Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, Willing To Die, Witness
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscopeby Michael DoyleIndia offers her vast diversitySimply put, a wealth of complexityFilled with peace within her kaleidoscopeAs harmonious coexistence offers hopeSlumdog lords are opulent in a historyOf a people struggling with povertyPluralistic in a free market democracyAs a metaphor lived … Continue reading →
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Tagged Age, Alignment, Aryan, Attachment, Belief, Bonfires, Brother, Built, Celebration, Charity, Choose, Colors, Complexity, Conduct, Creation, Cycle, Dance, Deep, Democracy, Devotion, Diversity, Emotion, Equal Weight, Festival, Fires, Forest, Free Market, Gaya, Give Peace A Chance, Greater, Grief, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heritage, History, Holi, Holy, Hope, Impurity, India, Inspires, Kaleidoscope, Langauge, Learning, Lords, Love, Love of Mankind, Mankind, Metaphor, Multiethnicity, Nation, Neglect, Never Reaching End, Noble Truth, Peace, People, Picked Clean, Poerty, Poetry and Poems, Powder, Reborn, Reciprocity, Recognition, Reject, Release, Renew, Respect, Right Knowledge, Shiva, Siddartha, Sight, Silence, Sister, Slumdog, Soul, Sparks, Spiritual Integrity, Strong, Surrender, The World, Tolerance, Towers, Tradition, True Friend, Turning, Understanding, Vast, Wealth, Wish, Youth
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Into the Open Door
What if we could finally stop seeking and finally see? Into the Open Door by Michael Doyle If life were but a movie What would we really be But a story within the story That is all the glory Of … Continue reading →
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Tagged As One, Attachment, Be, Begun, Being, Best, Beyond, Burst, Concern, Condition, Discovery, Done, Dream, Feel, Glory, Hand, Hope, Human, Into, Learn, Life, Live, Moment, More, Move, Movie, New Meaning, Open Door, Pages, Photo, Place In the Sun, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Real, See, Seek, Sense, Simple, Stop, Story, Struggle, Struggles, Taking In, Thrive, Touch, True, Understand, World
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