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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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Thought For the Day: The Hope of A Secure and Livable World Lies With Disciplined Nonconformists, Who Are Dedicated To Justice, Peace, and Brotherhood
“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress … Continue reading
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Tagged Brotherhood, Cause, Dedication, Discipline, Faith, Freedom, Hope, Justice, Liveable, Mankind, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonconformist, Peace, Progress, Secure, Thought For the Day, Trailblazers, World
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I’ll Meet You There
I’ll Meet You Thereby Michael DoyleSomewhere in hereIn the deep felt insideThere is cold fearThat has nowhere to hidePushed past mountains and woodsThe darkness comes as it shouldFighting against this is no goodThis is the truth that’s understoodWounded hearts always … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledging Your Lies, Ancient Road, Ancient Wisdom, Anguish, Beg, Believed, Blackest Black, Bury, Coins, Cold Fear, Cold Wind, Darkness, Dead, Dececember, Die, Embrace, Error, Eyes, Face, Fat, Fight, Forever, Forget, Ghosts of Fear, Good, Goodbye, Goodness, Harshness, Hate, Heads, Heartbreaks, Heaven, Here, Hide, Hope, I'll Meet You There, Inside, Journey, Last Breath, Life Depends, Light, Live, Long, Lost, Love, Meet You There, Misconception, Moments of Life, Mountains and Woods, Mysteeries, Near, Never Coming Back, Night, Nowhere, Passage, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Remember, River Styx, Run Deep, Should, Silent, Sins, Snow, Somewhere, Soul, Soul Searching, Truth, Understood, Wait, Win, Wish, Word, Wounded Heart, Year's End
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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: If I Speak In the Tongues of Men Or of Angels, But Do Not Have Love, I Am Only A Resounding Gong or A Clanging Cymbal
“13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind, Boast, Child, Delight In Evil, Dishonor, Easily Angered, Envy, Faith, First Principles, Fully, Gif, Greatest of These Is Love, Hope, Kind, Love, Man, Mirror, Never Fails, Part, Patient, Persevers, Protect, Proud, Record of Wrongs, Reflection, Rejoice With the Truth, Self-Seeking, Speak, Trust, Ways of Childhood
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Life Without Light
Life Without Lightby Michael DoyleLife without lightIs the color they died inDarker than nightIs the least of their sinsI can’t say you’ll like thisBut we need to risk regretFor all the world cried amissAt the lost beauty, we must regretSabbath … Continue reading
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Tagged Amiss, Calm, Color, Crimes, Dark, Depravity, Die, Doubt, End, Ends of Our Ropes, Friends, Glow, Graves, Hatred, Hearts, Hell, Hide, History, Hope, Humane, Humanity, Inside, Least, Life, Light, Lost Beauty, Madness, Melt, Never Forget, Night, No Way Out, Pages, Poetry and Poems, Prisoners, Regret, Remember, Risk, Sabbath Candles, Shot, Sin, Someday, Taint, Tears, The Other, Undone, Unfelt, Unifnished, World
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Searching For Reasons Why
Searching For Reasons Whyby Michael DoyleSearching for wordsThat just won’t comeHoping for a pocketful of miraclesBut finding noneThis is no way to spendThe moments leading to Christmas DayJust hoping for them to endCause they make no difference anywayTake another sip … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Believe, Blues, Cards, Chair, Christmas, Christmas Day, Comfort, Could, Cry, Daughters, David, Die, Difference, Dream, Dreams, Drenched, End, Father, Give, Gone, Good, Half, Happy, Hard, Hearts, Hope, Knocked Back, Lack, Life, Life's Pain, Long, Moments, None, Nudge, Pocketful of Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Read, Reasons, Rhyme, Sadness, Seams, Searching, Shoulders, Sip, Snowman, Spend, Stand, Stars, Table, Think, Time, Watch, Why, Without A Reason Why, Words
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