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Thought For the Day: The Best People Possess A Feeling For Beauty, the Courage To Take Risks, the Discipline To Tell the Truth, the Capacity for Sacrifice. Ironically, Their Virtues Make Them Vulnerable
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway
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Tagged Best People, Capacity, Courage, Destroy, Discimpline, Ernest Hemingway, Felling, Ironic, Possess, Risk, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtue, Vulneraable, Wound
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Nat Turner’s Legacy
Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed
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Thought For the Day: The Best People Possess A Feeling For Beauty, the Courage To Take Risks, the Discipline To Tell the Truth, the Capacity for Sacrifice
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway, author and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Best People, Capacity, Courage, Destroyed, Discipline, Ernest Hemingway, Feeling, Ironic, Possess, Risks, Sacrifice, Thought For the Day, Truth, Virtues, Vulnerable, Wounded
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A Life Lived Publicly
A Life Lived Publiclyby Michael DoyleWe walk through life brisklyThinking thoughts ironicallyAbout a life lived publiclyWhen it cannot be lived privatelyThere are eyes most everywhereAs the cameras blink and others stareIt only works if we live comfortablyWith the feeling we’re … Continue reading
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She Seemed Familiar
The challenge was to write a poem similar to a haiku that had an element of irony. What in life these days is not ironic? She Seemed Familiar by Michael Doyle She seemed familiar Until we started talking We … Continue reading
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