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Second Chance Poker
Second Chance Pokerby Michael DoyleYou don’t truly knowWhat it’s like to live hollowHaving nowhere to goLiving in a jail cell’s shadowClinging to who you used to beSilently hoping for your dignityFeeling like your honor is goneIs this life worth going … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood, Chase, Cling, Comedy, Dignity, Disguise, Disintegration, Eyes, Fire, Grief, Hollow, Imagination, Indignation, Innocence, Jail, Killer, Life, Mud, Noose, Poetry and Poems, Poker, Relief, Rolling Up, Second Chance, Sorrow, Soul, Tears, Time, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Violence
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Through the Years
Through the Yearsby Michael DoyleAlive somewhere in all my ADHDI sometimes walk right into meWhen I do, in times like thisI find there isn’t much to missI have always tried to be my bestStretching myself to meet my testsHead-on collisions … Continue reading
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Tagged Adapt, ADHD, Alive, Assurance, Beauty, Belong, Best, Blessing, Box of Cookies, Degrees, Drum, Gloom, God We Know, Godly, Gratitude, Guessing, Head On Collision, Hotel Room, Imagination, Indignation, Known, Learning, Lessons, Life Passes On, Love, Miss, Moonage Daydream, Movie Screen, Myself and Daughters, Overcome, Path of Life, Patience, Patient, Pensive, Please, Poetry and Poems, Princsses, Sensitive, Sharing Moments, Small Town, Smile, Sorrow and Silence, Stretch, Strive, Strong, Struggle, Suffering, Survive, Test, Think, Through the Years, Trapped, Turn Out Right, Walk, World, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: One’s Life Has Value So Long As One Attributes Value To the Life of Others, By Means of Love, Friendship, Indignation, and Compassion
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.” -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
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Tagged Attribute, Compassion, Friendship, Indignation, Life of Others, Love, Means, One's Life, Simone de Beauvoir, Thought For the Day, Value
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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
“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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Tagged Burn, Care, Cherish, Diligence, Dishonor, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Half Corrupted, Heart, Indignation, Parley, Practiced, Seduce, Slave and Victim, Slender Hold, Slightest Attempt, Vice, Virtues
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Cicero Speaks On Becoming Older
Cicero Speaks On Becoming Olderby Michael DoyleLife passes through many a stageUntil calumniating in old ageIt’s a folly to hold this in despiseWe’d be better off to open our eyesCicero offers us his philosopher’s lookIn his writing of many a … Continue reading
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Tagged Assassination, Assert, Assumption, Body, Cherished, Cicero, Clarity, Collective Wisdom, Constitutional Hall, Counsel, Despise, Die, Different, Education, Effective, Elder, Elocution, Ends of History, Essay, Estate, Eternity, Experience, Eyes, Fail, Fair Prize, Farm, Folly, Franklin, Freedom, Good Book, Grandparent, Guide, Hands, Heed, History, Ides of March, Immortality, Indignation, Infirmity, Inner Beauty, Integrity, Justice, Kingdom, Law, Leadership, Life, Life's Lessons, Loss, Meditate, Mental Abilities, Mental Faculty, Moments, Moral Duty, Observation, Offer, Old Age, Older, Open, Opportunity, Oratory, Phaedo, Philosopher, Plato, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Quality of Life, Reason, Sacred Ground, Sage, Sensual Pleasures, Sharp, Stage, Sweet Surprise, Teach, Throat, Tides, Time and Again, Triumph, Truth, Tyranny, Use, Useless, Valuable, Versed, Why, Wiser, Wonder, Write, Young
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First Principles: A Love of Truth and A Veneration of Virtue Are the Latent Spark For People Capable of Understanding
“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the “latent spark”… If … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, Amiable Passions, Apply, Difference, Feel, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, Human Nature, Indignation, Injury, John Adams, Latent Spark, Liberty, Love, Novanglus, Prinicple, Resentment, Right and Wrong, See, Sense, The People, True and False, Truth, Understanding, Veneration, Virtue, Virtue and Vice, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: A Life Has Value As Long As One Values the Life of Others
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” – Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
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Tagged Attribute, Compassion, Friendship, Indignation, Life, Love, Simone de Beauvoir, Thought For the Day, Value
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