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Children Jumping Shadows
Children Jumping Shadowsby Michael DoyleI listened to a whisper barely heardAbout separating myself from the herdIt wasn’t the desire to stand outAs much as it was living in worldly doubtI look around me, unable to truly seeWhat difference each can … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Begged Question, Better, Cast Out by Life, Children, Continent's Strife, Darkened Night, Desire, Difference, Dreams, Fallen, Fast Forward, Felt, Few, Glacial Melt, Gurus, Handful of Pixels, Heard, Herd, Hope, Hunger, Hungry Children, Jump, Myelf, Oceans, Poetry and Poems, Reach, See, Separate, Separately, Shadows, Shallows, Sorrow, Stand Out, Struggle, Sunlight, Together, Tomorrow, Unknown, Whisper, Worldly Doubt, Worn-Out Shoes, Yesterday
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Madison On Government
Madison On Governmentby Michael DoyleTroubled times seem to be surroundingWith more demons than angels aboundingMadison found this reason for governmentI don’t see any real further improvementThe truth remains that government is powerWith tiny tyrants clutching at their hourBig words do … Continue reading
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Tagged Abound, Advance, Angels, Big Words, Cloaw, Constitution, Crown, Demons, Disarmed Populace, Display, Enslaved Press, Eyes, Fellow Citizens, Few, Founded, Freedom, God's Laws, Government, Hear, Hope and Fear, Hour, Improvement, Information, Intolerance, Madison, Mess, Nation, Now and Then, Organize, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Power, Protesting, Reason, Recall, Recognize, Republic, Science, Shouted Down, Silence, Standing Army, Struggle, Surrounding, The Left, Thought, Total Revolution, Troubled Times, Truth, Tyranny, Tyrants, Violence, Way, Within
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First Principles: How Few There Are Who Have Courage Enough To Own Their Faults, Or Resolution Enough To Mend Them
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Courage, Faults, Few, First Principles, Mend, Own, Resolution
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First Principles: The Accumulation of All Powers…In the Same Hands…Whether Hereditary, Self-Appointed, Or Elective, May Justly Be Pronounced the very Definition of Tyranny
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison (1788) This … Continue reading
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Tagged Accumulation, Definition, Elective, Executive, Few, First Pinciples, Hereditary, James Madison, Judiciary, Legislative, Many, One, Powers, Pronounce, Same Hands, Self-Appointed, Tyranny
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First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence — true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, All, Appellation, Confidence, Courteous, Entitle, Few, First Principles, George Washington, Intimate, Plant, Shocks, Slow Growth, True Friendship, Well Tried, Withstand
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Thought For the Day: Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – William Shakespeare
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Tagged All, Few, Love, None, Thought For the Day, Trust, William Shakespeare, Wrong
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On Foundations Known
On Foundations Knownby Michael DoyleRevolutions come from old foundations knownAnd the principles of justice clearly shownThis then is society’s first sense of dutyPart and parcel to the truth of American beautyAnd equally distributed across humanityWhen philosophers talk about braveryThere is … Continue reading
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Tagged American Beauty, Bravery, Cardinal Attribute, Commodity, Devotion, Distribute, Duty, English Common Law, Equal, Eternal Vigilence, Fascism, Few, Fiefdom, Forever Absolute, Foundations, Freedom, Furture, Good, Heritage, Humanity, Immortality, Justice, Known, Many, Morality, Motion, Nurture, O, Optimism, Philosopher, Physical Sense, Poetry and Poems, Price of Liberty, Principles, Recall, Republic, Revolution, Seedlings, Self-Rule, Society, Soul, Theft, Trample, Understood, Universe, Virtue, We The People, Wheels
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Thought For the Day: A Few Cobras In Your Home Will Soon Clear It of Rats and Mice. Of Course, You Will Still Have The Cobras
“A few cobras in your home will soon clear it of rats and mice. Of course, you will still have the cobras.”-Will Cuppy, journalist (23 Aug 1884-1949
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Tagged Clear, Cobra, Few, Home, Mice, Rat, Thought For the Day, Will Cuppy
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The History That I’m Still Living
The History That I’m Still Livingby Michael DoyleWhen the winds of change blew throughThe march of history became more trueThere really wasn’t much to sayBy those who outgrew their shackles of yesterdayThe Wild West became the Wild EastAs crime and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Blind, Brave, Cages, Capitalist, Causes of Freedom, Cracked ideals, Crime and Corruption, Determined, Died For, Dignity, Dreams, Evidence, Fabians, False Alibis, Few, Fools, Forefathers, Freedom and Liberty, Good fight, History, Ignore, Invade, Liberty, Lies, Living, Mankind, March of History, Memories, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Resist, Restored Empire, Right and True, Say, Self-Chosen Slavery, Shackles, Socialists, Stubborn Facts, Success, Throw Away, True, Tyranny, Verdict, Watch, West, Wild East, Winds of Change, Yesterday
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For Angels Fallen
For Angels Fallenby Michael DoyleWhen I met youI found a new dreamIt’s the only one that will doTo make me a better human beingI kept looking for your wingsCertain that you had fallenFrom heaven from the joys you bringThe gleam … Continue reading
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 