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Thought For the Day: All Men By Nature Are Equal In That Equal Right That Every Man Hath To His Natural Freedom, Without Being Subjected To the Will or Authority of Any Other Man
“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Equal, Harm, Health, Independent, John Locke, Liberty, Mankind, Natural Frreedom, Nature, Possessions, Thought For the Day
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Strange Days In Need of Integrity
Strange Days In Need of Integrityby Michael DoyleLooking at the strange days of indignity,It seems we need to find our integrity. In the toss of deception and sin, We wonder if we’ll find a way out again. Something is awry … Continue reading
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Tagged Awry, Benevelolence, Christianity, Cultural Scipt, Deception, Excellence, Faith, Flipped, God, Honor, Indignity, Integrity, Mankind, Moral Sense, Nature, Need, Nurture, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Reference, Sin, Society, Spirituality, Strange Days, Toss, True Character
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Hoosier Rains
Hoosier Rainsby Michael DoyleIt has been over twenty years nowAnd it’s on my mind still somehow.I was driving, approaching the state lineOf Indiana, determined to make it mine.Shortly before the sight of the dunes, I had plannedTo visit like some … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Central, Crags, Destination, Dunes, Flatness, Glacier, Grace, Heart, Hills, Himility, Hoosier, Hoosier Hopsitality, hoosiers, Indiana, Kindness, Lake Michigan, Location, Mind, Naive Skies, Nature, Planted Ground, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Rain, Rainbow, Reality, Reputation, Sand, Silence, Soul, State Line, Structure, SUV, Time's Passages, Tranquility, Travel, Twenty Years
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Thought For the Day: Nature Does Not Hurry, Yet Everything Is Accomplished
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
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Tagged Accomplishment, Everything, Hurry, Lao Tzu, Nature, Thought For the Day
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Sudden Thunderstorm
Sudden Thunderstormby Michael DoyleWhen I left to go hike, the skies were clear.I just wanted God and nature’s path to be near.Besides missing my daughters, my world had no care.It turned out that this illusion was its own snare.Having hiked … Continue reading
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Tagged Acted, Baby Squirrels, backpacking, Birds, Brightness, Buildings, Car, Cell, Chipmunks, Clear, Darkness, Daughters, Dead, Disappear, Distance, Distracted, Energuy, God, GPS, Hard To Understand, Harshness, Heartland, Hike, hiking, Illusion, Life, Lightning, Limb, Loving Intention of God, Moan and Talk, Nature, No Care, Orchard Trail, Otter Trail, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Punch, Rain, Rock, Shadowed, Shaken Up, Silent, Skies, Snakes of Fire, Snare, Straight-Line Winds, Thunderclap, Thunderstorm, Tornado, Tornado Skies, Torrential Downpour, Travail, Travel, Twists of Light, Ugly and Frightening, Versailles Park, Weather, Woodland, Wrath of Rain
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Thought For the Day: Man’s Heart, Away From Nature Becomes Hard… Lack of Respect For Growing, Living Things Soon Led To Lack of Respect For Human Too
“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.” – Luther Standing Bear
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Tagged Grow, Hard, Humans, Lack of Respect, Lakota, Living Things, Luther Standing Bear, Man's Heaert, Nature, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Nature Intended Me For the Tranquil Pursuits of Science, By Rendering Them My Supreme Delight
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged First Principles, Nature, Pursuit, Render, Science, Supreme Delight, Thomas Jefferson, Tranquil
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First Principles: There Is Nothing More Corrupting, Nothing More Destructive of the Noblest and Finest Feelings of Our Nature, Than the Exercise of Unlimited Power
“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.” – William Henry Harrison
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Tagged Corrupting, Destructive, Exercise, Feelings, Finest, First Principles, Nature, Noblest, Nothing, Unlimited Power, William Henry Harrison
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Thought For the Day: Never, No, Never, Did Nature Say One Thing, and Wisdom Say Another Thing
“Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing, and Wisdom say another.” – Edmund Burke, in his Third Letter on Regicide Peace, 1797
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