Tag Archives: Diligence

First Principles: Learning Is Not Attained By Chance, It Must Be Sought For With Ardor and Diligence

Posted on December 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” – Abigail Adams

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First Principles: The Word of God Must Be Read and Heard With Diligence That So You May Arrive To the Knowledge That Is Needful For You

Posted on November 21, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.” – Cotton Mather

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Thought For the Day: Bestow Upon Me, O Lord My God, Understanding To Know Thee, Diligence To Seek Thee, Wisdom To Find Thee, and A Faithfulness That May Finally Embrace Thee

Posted on August 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.” – Thomas Aquinas

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First Principles: If Your Determination Is Fixed, I Do Not Counsel You To Despair. Few Things Are Impossible To Diligence and Skill

Posted on October 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

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First Principles: War, Like Most Other Things, Is A Science To Be Acquired and Perfected By Diligence, By Perseverance, By Time, and By Practice

Posted on March 29, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)

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Born In the Rockies (Part I)

Posted on March 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Born In the Rockies (Part I)by Michael DoyleSpring has come with this mornAs another young life is bornEach step in the Rockies must be solvedAt every turn, there are tests to be resolvedEvery opportunity is used to hone skillsIn Mother … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Some Books Are To Be Tasted, Others To Be Swallowed, and Some Few To Be Chewed and Digested

Posted on October 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”-Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

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First Principles: We Have But A Slender Hold of Our Virtues; They Ought, Therefore, To Be Cherished With Care, and Practiced With Diligence

Posted on April 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“We have but a slender hold of our virtues; they ought, therefore, to be cherished with care, and practised with diligence.” – Fisher Ames

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A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts

Posted on December 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts (Republished for 2020)by Michael Doyle aka Michael Romani I. I have heard it saidThat you can eat ’til you’re fullAnd it’s still not enoughThe excuse to be given“But, it’s Christmas…”And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Dr. Seuss With No Excuse

Posted on April 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Two weeks in aka Day 14 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 and the challenge prompt today is: “to think about your own inspirations and forebears (whether literary or otherwise). Specifically, I challenge you today to write a poem that deals with the … Continue reading →

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