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First Principles: ‘Tis the Business of Little Minds To Shrink; But He Whose Heart Is Firm and Whose Conscience Approves His Conduct Will Pursue His Principles Unto Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Approves, Business, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, Firm, First Principles, Gather Strength, Grow Brave, Heart, Little Minds, Love, Principles, Pursue, Reflection, Shrink, Smile, The Person, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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Thought For the Day: Tolerance Is A Better Guarantee of Freedom Than Brotherly Love
“Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.” – Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941)
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Tagged Appointed, Brother, Brother's Keeper, Brotherly Love, Everett Dean Martin, Freedom, Guarantee, Love, Man, Thought For the Day, Tolerance
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Shorebreak Blues
Shorebreak Bluesby Michael DoyleOut there on my hideaway, ride the bayI spend my moments in my casual wayHere to surf not to observe or talkI watch the waves crash on Jackpot RockI feel Autumn come creeping in Dreaming in my … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Autumn, Bay, Big Waves, Blues, Casual, Clouds, Crash, Creep In, Doubt, Dreams, Drizzle, Early Morning, Easy Enough, Everyday, Experience, Fake, Feeling, Gone, Hideaway, Island Girl, Jackpot Rock, Love, Make My Way, Moments, Observe, Oceant, Old Timers, Paddle, Paddle Out Again, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Preference, Reverence, Ride, Roll In, Shape, Shorebreak, Sizzle, Slipping On, Souls, Stay, Sun, Surf, Swimming With Iguanas, Take, Talk, Talk Story, Tides, Time Spent, Waiemea, Waves, Waves Meet Shore
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Not Even Death
Not Even Deathby Michael DoyleIf only the hand of loveCould ensnare the moonAnd if belief in the stars aboveBrought faith to the near and soonThere would be nothing to being handledNo complications to become rattledJust the courage needed to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Be Strong, Belief, Best of Life, Blush, Breath, Chance, Cheer, Concern, Courage, Dance, Danger, Death, Declarative, Faith, Fear, Flight, Go the Distance, Go Wrong, Gravity, Hand, Handle, Heroes, Home, Imperative, Inter-Stellar, Love, Mars, Moon, Moonlight, Onward, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Rattle, Sacred, Sacred Duty, Sanctuary, Snare, Stars, Stay the Course, Stranger, Toward, Victory, Want the Shot
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Thought For the Day: Love Is the Answer, At Least Most of the Questions In My Heart
“Love Is the Answer, At Least For Most of the Questions In My Heart.” – Jack Johnson
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Tagged Answer, Heart, Jack Johnson, Least, Love, Most, Questions, Thought For the Day
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A Wolf Keeps Watch
A Wolf Keeps Watchby Michael DoyleLike a wolf into a flock of sheepTheir troubled souls, he would keepFor he was a reformed wolf standing guard against the enemyAnd there were questions of one’s dignityPoints of contention still must be proved … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blur, Blush, Breath, Buriedd, Contention, Corruption, Craw, Defile, Determined, Devil, Dignity, Enemy, Evidence, Eyes, Fall, Flock of Sheep, Forgotten, Giving Ground, God, Guard, Guilty, Harder Than Death, Head of Doubt, Holy Man, Hostiles, Hustle, Innocent Child, Keep, Last, Love, Mumbles, Obedience, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Point of View, Pray, Providence, Questions, Random Thought, Recall, Reformed, Rotten, Safe, Shake, Shiver, Side Hustle, Silent, Sold, Solid, Soul, Street, Survivors, Suspicion, Tale, Tears, Told, Touch, Trace, Troubled Souls, True, Truth, Under, Understood, Watch, Wollf, Wounded Heart
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Thought For the Day: What We Need In the United States…Is Not Violence and Lawlessness But Is Love and Wisdom and Compassion Toward One Another
“What We Need In the United States Is Not Division. What We Need In the United States Is Not Hatred. What We Need In the United States Is Not Violence and Lawlessness But Is Love, and Wisdom, and Compassion Toward … Continue reading
First Principles: If Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty…Go Home From Us In Peace…May Posterity Forget That You Were Our Countrymen
“If Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty, the Tranquility of Servitude Better Than the Animating Contest of Freedom, Go Home From Us In Peace. We Ask Not Your Counsels Or Your Arms. Crouch Down and Lick the Hands Which Feed … Continue reading
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