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In the Heat of August
In the Heat of Augustby Michael DoyleRising temperatures affect the moodWith noisy insects seeming to intrudeSome live to complain line after lineBut I think instead, I’ll make August mineEven a poet or two finds it a povertyThat they cannot enjoy … Continue reading
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Tagged Affect, August, Autumn, Blue Moon, Children, Complain, Dreams, Dusk, Embrace, Evening Woods, Explore, Favorite, Feast, Fields of Flowers, Fireflies, Forget, Fruit, Heat, Helen Hunt Jackson, Hours, Intrude, Line After Line, Magic, Mine, Mood, Moon Beams, Nature, Noisy Insects, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pools, Poverty, Regret, Ripe, Rising Temperatures, Soul, Summer's Last Stand, Sunny Days, Swim, Swimming Holes, Tapestry, Think, Understand, Violets
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First Principles: Natural Liberty Is A Gift of the Beneficent Creator To the Whole Human Race, and That Civil Liberty Is Founded In That
“The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms and false reasonings is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquainted, Alexander Hamilton, All Men, Civil Liberty, Creator, Errors, False Reasonings, First Principles, Fundamental Source, Gift, Justice, Natural Liberty, Natural Rights of Mankind, Nature, Parity of Privileges, People, Sophisms, Thought, Total Ignorance, Violation, Whole Human Race, Wrested
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Thought For the Day: In Nature There Are Neither Rewards Nor Punishments; There Are Consequences
“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” – Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)
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Tagged Consequences, Nature, Punishments, Rewards, Robert Green Ingersoll, 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, in his Letter to DuPont de Nemours as cited in Benson, 1971)
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Tagged First Principles, Intend, Nature, Pursuitss, Science, Supreme Delight, Thomas Jefferson, Tranquil
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Nature and Dignity Earned
Nature and Dignity Earnedby Michael DoyleThere’s a quiet in natureThat you won’t find in the cityIt helps you to think and matureLearning what is and isn’t prettyThis is especially true of the soulAs you learn the value of self-controlBeing where … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Born To Be, Chance, Circumstance, City, Critical Moments, Danger, Decide, Deserve, Dignity Earned, Discern, Experience, Eyes, Face-To-Face, Felt, Give, Grace, Heart, Humility, Imprint, Known, Learn, Live, Lives, Master Ourselves, Mature, Meant, Nature, Observe, Outcome, Paths, Places, Poetry and Poems, Pretty, Quiet, See, Self-Control, Shown, Soul, Stars, Start, Step, Teach, Think, Traces, True, Value, Wish
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A Sultry Obsession
A Sultry Obsessionby Michael DoyleSince an early age, I have had a sultry obsessionWith a kind of magic that cannot be held in possessionCleaning up after others was maybe not so wonderfulBut it was doing my bit to keep our … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledge, Appreciation, Balance, Beauty, Camera, Camera's Eye, Capture, Cleaner, Cleaning Up, College, Country Roads, Crisp Morning Air, Days, Doing My Bit, Early Age, Effot, Feeling, First Touch, Forever, Gaze, God's Creation, Humanity's Ability, Keep Our American Beautiful, Kind of Magic, Knowledge, Lifetime Later, Meaner, Mountains, Nature, Never Truly Alone, Once Again, Please, Pledge, Poetry and Poems, Possession, Prairies, Real Home, Return the Care, Science, Share, Sultry Obsession, Sunny Days, Sunshine, Trash Bags, Trees, Walk, Water Ways, Wonderful, World, World Kin
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Thought For the Day: The Least Movement Is of Importance To All Nature. The Entire Ocean Is Affected By A Pebble
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” – Blaise Pascal
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Tagged Affect, Blaise Pascal, Entire Ocean, Importance, Least, Movement, Nature, Pebble, Thought For the Day
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The Golden Ratio of Fibonacci
The Golden Ratio of Fibonacciby Michael DoyleThe Fibonacci numbers aren’t tragicIndeed, these are a thing of constant magicLeonardo of Pisa is a true figure of historyThat revealed these numbers in their mysteryWe ask ourselves questions to puzzle and learnAll these … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Clear, Connections, Constant, Direction, Discern, Discover, Disparate Ways, Distortion, Diverese, Driving Force, End, Evenness, Everywhere, Exercise, Fable, Fibonacci, fibonacci-sequence, Forever, Go Along, Golden Ratio, Grand Contemplation, Grow, History, Joke, Knowledge, Leap Frogging, Learn, Leonardo of Pisa, Magic, Mind, Mystery, Nature, Numbered Patterns, Numbers, Numerical Propotion, Persuade, Pervade, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Puzzle, Question Why, Questions, Questionss, Revael, Riddles, Science, See, Sequence, Show, Sigh, Solve For X, Squares, Summed Up, The World, Thirds, Tragic, Travel, True, Wise
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In Prayers for My Mother
In Prayers For My Motherby Michael DoyleMy ex-wife recovers from surgery on this Mother’s DayI gave up the weekend she owed to show in some sort of wayThat I wish her to recover and want my daughters to tendTo her … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Best, Better Son, Call On God, Church, Daughters, Done, Every Day, Ex Wife, Family, Grace, Heaven, Imperfect Son, Jesus, Laugh, Lessons, Look Back, Love, Loving and Brave, Mature, Miracle, Mom, Momma, Mother, Mother's Day, My Mother, Nature, Personal Relationship, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Precious Daughters, Present, Quietly Pray, Recover, Remember, Saves, Show, Sought, Strength, Struggle and Strife, Stumble, Surgery, Taught, Tear, Tend, The Lord, The Power, The Son, Think, Throughout My Day, Time, Time To Pray, Traces, Trail, Weekend
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First Principles: Without Liberty, Law Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Oppression. Without Law, Liberty Also Loses Its Nature and Its Name, and Becomes Licentiousness
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson (1790)
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Tagged First Principles, James Wilson, Law, Liberty, Licentiousness, Lose, Name, Nature, Oppression
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