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First Principles: The First Transactions of A Nation, Like Those of an Individual Upon His First Entrance Into Life Make the Deepest Impression, and Are To Form the Leading Traits In Its Character
“The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.” – George Washington (1788)
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Tagged Character, Deepest Impression, Entrance, First Principles, First Transactions, Form, George Washington, Individual, Leading Traits, Life, Nation
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Whatever the Day’s Length
Whatever the Day’s Lengthby Michael DoyleWhatever the day’s lengthMy joy in the Lord gives me strengthI say this in all that I speakFrom the ocean shore to the mountain’s peakGod is present in my every dayHe is here as I … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All, Blessed, Calvary, Console, Darkness, Day's Length, Every Day, Forgiveness, Fullness of God, God, Grace, Grave, Harshness, His Love, Holy Name, Joy, Life, Light, Love, Mountain's Peak, Near, Nothing, Ocean Shore, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Reigning Down, Same, Say, Soul, Speak, Strength, The Lord, Whatever
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In the Solitude of Darkness
In the Solitude of Darknessby Michael DoyleTo the degree that I do not fearI am powerful enough to persevereI say this with a heavy-hearted sighAs my soul fixes its intellectual eyeThe love and rage that exists inside meHave become the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beast, Beginning, Bitter Instinct, Change, Consolation, Creativity, Darkness, Depravity, Design, Destination, Divine, Dreams, Ending, Explore, Extinct, Fallen Angel, Fear, Harshness, Heart, Heart of Desire, Howl, Intellectual Eye, Knees, Level, Lie, Life, Love, Love and Rage, Malignant Devil, Misery, Outstretch, Persevere, Philosophy, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Sigh, Snarl, Solititude, Solitude, Soul, Understand, Wickedness, Wild Seas and Regions, Work, World's Secrets, Wounded Hand
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The Memory Is Bittersweet
The Memory Is Bittersweetby Michael DoyleI wish I could erase the darkness I have feltThat somehow, some way, I could escape the hand dealtAll the good and the bad that makes us who we areLeaves me wishing forlorn on that … Continue reading
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Tagged Apparitions, Bittersweet, Breaks Your Heart, Darkness, Dealt, Defeat, Echoes, Erase, Family, Fear, Felt, Ghosts, Good and the Bad, Life, Living Dead, Love, Memories, Memory, Past, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Sanity, Tears You Apart
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Seeking the Ways
Seeking the Waysby Michael DoyleSeeking the ways I can improveI know that God is going to moveI can’t help but chase it aroundThe power and glory that I’ve foundLife lived in all its harmonyThere in the notes that surround meYou … Continue reading
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Tagged Brings, Chase It Around, Dead, Done, Finish, Found, Frightening, Glory, God, Harmony, Heart, Improve, Jesus Christ, Joy, King, Know, Life, Lightning, Love, Move, Notes, Poetry and Poems, Power and Glory, Praise, Rejoice, Rock, Satan, Seeking the Ways, Shout, Sing, Start, Struck, Surrendered My Life, Surround, Talk, Talking About, The Father and the Son, Walk, Worship and Testimony
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Thought For the Day: Cutting Negative People From My Life Does Not Mean I Hate Them, It Simply Means I Respect Me
“Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.” – Marilyn Monroe
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Tagged Cut, Hate, Life, Marilyn Monroe, Me, Negative People, Respect, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Life Is Short. Be Swift To Love! Make Haste To Be Kind!
“Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! “- Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (27 Sep 1821-1881)
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Tagged Haste, Henri Frederic Amiel, Kind, Life, Love, Short, Swift, Thought For the Day
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Doomscrolling the Past Time Lore
Doomscrolling the Past Time Loreby Michael DoyleIt’s a twisted blade to the knife That makes a struggle for our lifeInto a battle to hold off deathUntil the very last draw of breathSo much deception when truth becomes liesWhile we look … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Battle, Belief, Bite, Breath, Cost, Cure, Death, Death by Death, Deception, Dignity, Doomscrolling, Drag, Dreams, Endure, Eyes, Faint-Hearted, Families of Choice, Government Laboratory, Halloween, Holding On, Hope, Humanity, Isolated, Knife, Legends Bred, Lies, Life, Lived Through, Lost, Love, Mude, New Mythology, Past Time Lore, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Relief, Scratch, Struggle, Survivors, Tears, Thirst For Blood, Tribe, Truth, Unproven Authority, Walls of Defense, Whispered Story, Zombie Virius
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First Principles: Go Confidently In the Direction of Your Dreams. Live the Life You Have Imagined
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Tagged Confident, Direction, Dreams, First Princioples, Henry David Thoreau, Imagine, Life, Live
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Thought For the Day: Life Is A Comedy For Those How Think and A Tragedy For Those Who Feel
“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.” – Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (24 Sep 1717-1797)
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Tagged Comedy, Feel, Horace Walpole, Life, Think, Those, Thought For the Day, Tragedy
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