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Thought For the Day: Human Greatness Does Not Lie In Wealth or Power, But In Character and Goodness
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.” – Anne Frank
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Tagged Anne Frank, Character, Goodness, Human Greatness, Power, Thought For the Day, Wealth
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The Magnificence of Significance
The Magnificence of Significance by Michael DoyleFrom the beginning, we have the visionWe might lack in our precisionBut we know what we’re going forFaith is the kindness that opens the closed doorIn all the paths we are shownWe look back … Continue reading
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Tagged Arose, Authority, Baton, Beginning, Biblical Verse, Billy Graham, Character, Christ, Christianity, Circumstances, Closed Door, Created, Cross, Details, Done, Ears To Hear, Eden, Embrace, Eyes To See, Face, Faith, First, Generosity, Gnosticism, God, Grown, His Blood, In the Name of, Interwoven, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kindness, Know, Lack, Magnificence, Open, Palestine, Paths, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernism, Poverty, Precision, Purpose, Redemption, Reveal, Serpent, Service, Shown, Significance, Spoken, Stay, Steadfast, Sucession, Supremacy, Teach, Temptation, Thirst, Three Days, Universe, Victory, Vision
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First Principles: Still I Hope I Shall Always Possess Firmness and Virtue Enough To Maintain (What I Consider the Most Enviable of All Titles) the Character of An Honest Man
“Still I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man.” – George Washington to Alexander Hamilton (Thursday, August 28, 1788)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Character, Consider, Enviable, Firmness, First Principles, George Washington, Honest Man, Hope, Maintain, Possess, Title, Virtue
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Loving Enough For Two
Loving Enough For Twoby Michael DoyleIt was easy enough to feel slightedAs off in the distance, he sightedEnough to evidence his dreams shatteringAs her coldness set his teeth chatteringHe hadn’t wanted to open up and hear itThat there was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledgment, Admiration, Adoration, Basket, Beyond Good and Evil, Birth of Love, Blessed, Blind, Character, Coldness, Contest, Count the Ways, Critical Eyes, Crystalize, Delight, Disparageer, Doubt, Easy Enough, Evidence, Fear, Give, Hear, Hope, Impluasibility, Impossibility, Lines, Love, Loving Enough, Merit, Mind, Mirror, Misstep, Monogamy, Obvious, Optimist, Permanent, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Reasons, Restlessness, Shine, Sighted, Sights, Signs, Simple Plot, Slighted, Solitude, The Happy Few, Theory, Thought, Trapped, Twilight, Two, Well Spring, Whim, Wrong or Right
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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man…” – George Washington
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Tagged Character, First Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Good, Mankind, Moral
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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man…” – George Washington
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Tagged Character, First Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Good, Important, Learned, Man, Mankind, Moral, Virtuous
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First Principles: The Public Cannot Be Too Curious Concerning the Characters of Public Men
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” -Samuel Adams (1775)
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Tagged Cannot, Character, Concern, Curious, First Principles, Public, Public Men, Samuel Adams
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First Principles: In All Very Numerous Assemblies, of Whatever Character Composed, Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Assemblies, Character, Fail, First Principles, James Madison, Numerous, Passion, Reason, Scepter, Wrest
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The Devils We Wish We Didn’t Know
The Devils We Wish We Didn’t Knowby Michael DoyleThe NCAAWas, and is, the DevilWe knew enough to knowA scam for payNever on the levelIt was for extra coinsNot for any college bowlGraveyard memoriesDedicated to familiesThat gave their allIn the name … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Broken Bones, Brothers, Champions, Character, Coin, College Bowl, Concussions, Cried, Dead, Dedicated, Devil, Died, Dies, Explanation, Fame, Family, Fifty Yard Line, Football, Fortune, Game, Graveyard, Head, Human Being, Jive, Know, Lies, Loan, Organization, Pay, Played, Poetry and Poems, Rode, Sake, Scam, Spirits, Tears, The NCAA, Ton of Bricks, Tragic, True, Unseen, Wish, Worth, Wounded Voice
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