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First Principles: Man, Once Surrendering His Reason, Has No Remaining Guard Against Absurdities the Most Monstrous
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdities, Faith, First Principles, Guard, Gullibility, Hand of Reason, Helm, Mankind, Mind, Persons, Reason, Rudder, Ship, Sport, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson, Wind, Wreck
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Through the Eyes of Love
Through the Eyes of Loveby Michael DoyleThrough the eyes of love I see youDreaming of things we’ve grownTo become and what it is we doWhat the future holds is shownIn the way that you touch my handAnd how you kiss … Continue reading
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Tagged Become, Blind, Care, Close, Closer In Heart, Do, Dreaming, Each Other's Arms, Embrace, Face, Find, Future Holds, Grown, Hand, Happiness, Heart, Insistence, Kiss, Love To Light, Magic, Mind, Miss, Morning and Night, My Lady, Only Get Better, Our Lives, Own Kind, Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, See, Shining Down, Shown, Smile, Start, Sweet Trace, Sweetness, Through, Together, Touch, Traces, Understand, Walking the Distance, Wonderland, Year, Years, You and I, Your Love
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Thought For the Day: There Are Those Who Will Say That the…Freedom of Man and Mind Is the American Dream
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.” – Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
First Principles: Man, Once Surrendering His Reason, Has No Remaining Guard Against Absurdities
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdities, Faith, First Principles, Gullibility, Hand of Reason, Helm, Man, Mind, Monstrous, No Remaining Guard, Persons, Reason, Rudder, Ship, Sport, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson, Wind, Wreck
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First Principles: The Mind That Aims At A Select Militia, Must Be Influenced By A Truly Anti-Republican Principle
“The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against … Continue reading
An Incident of Oxford Compilation
An Incident of Oxford Compilationby Michael DoyleIn my mind gathered so silentlyI pray against evil so vigilantlyIn the darkness of a blind alleyLost among the madmen in the galleryThough words come at me namedLanguage itself will not be tamedIt grows … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreed, Alley, Approach, Best Laid Plans, Capability, Cast, Change, Charade, Clear, Compilation, Contrary, Crumble, Darkness, Dictionary, Eloquent, Encroach, English Language, English Tongue, Gallery, Incident, Known, Lairds, Language, Lexicon, Linguist, Madmen, Mind, Nation, Need, Nuance, Oxford, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Proctor, Propriety, Quotation, Refine, Rubicon, Search, Shown, Silent, Sketches, Study, Supplication, Symbols, Tamed, Tumble, Turn, Vigilant, Volumes, Wise Men, Words
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To Simply Believe
To Simply Believeby Michael DoyleThe Square root of the possibleOf all that we can achieveIs to have some gumption And to simply believeThrowing caution to the windTaking chances we defendMore on odds approximatedAnd guaranteed seldom as estimatedThe magic isn’t just … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieve, Afraid, Again, Approximate, Believe, Believing, Best Capability, Calculation, Capable, Choose, Closed Eyes, Dedication, Destination, Dreams, Estimate, Fear, Formulate, Gumption, Hard, Heart, Hearts, Heaven Sends, Imagination, Journey, Know, Magic, Mend, Mind, Mistletoe, No Telling, Odds, Persevere, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Possible, Quite the Cost, Reality, See, Seeing the Way, Shared Smile, Simple, Square Root, Story Ends, Taking Chances, Things In Life, Throw Caution To the Wind, Together, Truth, Unafraid, What's Lost, Worth While
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Every Day Is A Gift
Every Day Is A Giftby Michael DoyleUp in the sky, Santa is comingAcross the roofs, reindeer are runningThe gift of love is wrapped up in youDreamily finding your heart so trueA Christmas song comes to mindAs every day is a … Continue reading
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Tagged A New Gift, Always Be Mine, Blessed, Christmas Song, Dream, Dreaming Of, Every Day, Every Way, Fairy Tale, Fill My Days, Find, Gift, Gift of Love, Given, Glow, Mind, Morning, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious Sight, Reindeer, Roofs, Santa, Shine, Sky, Soul Shift, Stars, To Be Your Man, True, Truth, Turning Out So Right, Wak, Wrapped In Love, Wrapped Up In You, You Can, Your Arms, Your Eyes, Your Heart
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Thought For the Day: Culture Is the Widening of the Mind and of the Spirit. It Is Never A Narrowing of the Mind Or A Restriction of the Human Spirit Or the Country’s Spirit
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru, freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister … Continue reading
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Tagged Country, Culture, Human Spirit, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mind, Narrow, Restriction, Spirit, Thought of the Day, Widen
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Some Times We Can Wait No Longer
Some Times We Can Wait No Longerby Michael DoyleSocrates and Jesus took their last breathsAs each of these were put to their deathsAccused and tried for treason and blasphemyAnd in corrupting the young by truth’s divinityThe noble search and allegiance … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Allegiance, Allow Life, Appreciate, Beauty, Beyond Compare, Beyond Our Control, Blasphemy, Born, Burn, Call, Chain, Commiseration, Complication, Consolation, Corrupt, Curing, Dedication, Derive, Divine Comedy, Divinity, Document, Emperor, Enduring, Evil, Evil Intent, Explanation, Faithful, Fame and Fortune, Fate, Freed Thoughts, Freedoms, Gained Victory, Gifts, Gives and Takes, God's Instruments, Good, Happiness, Harsh, Hatred, Heaven, History, Holy and Good, Humanity, Imprisoned, Instrument, Jesus, Justice, Know, Last Breath, Laughter, Led, Library, Life, Literature, Live, Live On, Lose Charm, Loss, Love, Martin Luther King Jr, Mean, Mind, Misery, Must, No Longer, Noble, Nothing, Others, Outside Agitator, Overome, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power of Belief, Providence, Put to Death, Real Form, Respond, Returning Good for Evil, Reveal, Rhapsody, Search, Second Guess, Segregation, Sermons, Shackled Will, Slander, Socrates, Some Times We Wait No Longer, Sung, Tatter, Theta, Times, Treason, Trouble, Trust, Truth, Understood, Unwise, Venerate, Wait, Wicked Consolation, World, Wrong, Young
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