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Strike the Match
Strike the Matchby Michael DoyleLife broke our heartsAnd filled it with sorrowLife killed our hopeBy filling us with promised tomorrowsThere inside our broken smilesAre the tatters, we won’t leave behindEven for a sacred shot at sanityThat is, after all, naught … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, Bad, Broken Smiles, Care, Children, Choose, Core, Darkness, Eyes, Fair, Flames, Good, Hard Price, Harshness, Heart, Hope, Immortality, Learn, Life, Live For Love, Match, New World, Nice to Win, Old World, Open, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Sanity, Secret Pain, Shame, Should, Sigh, Sleep, Sorrow, Stay Alive, Strike, Sunrise, Survive, Tatters, Vanity, Win
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There Is A Dream
There Is A Dreamby Michael DoyleThere is a dreamInside our reflectionA silent sort of screamThat escapes the world’s detectionA world that no one else can seeIn an answer in search of questionsThat we won’t ask in possibilityA mirrored echo of … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Believer, Better, Build, Choice, Defiance, Destination, Detection, Dignify, Dream, Echo, Escape, Form, Found, Ground, Grow, Hearts, Hesitation, Investigation, Keep, Minds, Mirror, Mysteries, Open, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Power, Question, Reach Beyond, Reality, Reflection, Render, Revealed, Roads, Scream, See, Selves, Silent, Singular, Splendor, Tether, Tomorrow, Trap, Travel, Truth, Unaware, Unravel, Voice, Wishes, World
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First Principles: The Republican Is the Only Form of Government Which Is Not Eternally At Open or Secret War With the Rights of Mankind
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” – Thomas Jefferson (1790)
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Tagged Eternal, First Principles, Government, Only Form, Open, Republic, Republican, Rights of Mankind, Secret, Thomas Jefferson, War
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Cicero Speaks On Becoming Older
Cicero Speaks On Becoming Olderby Michael DoyleLife passes through many a stageUntil calumniating in old ageIt’s a folly to hold this in despiseWe’d be better off to open our eyesCicero offers us his philosopher’s lookIn his writing of many a … Continue reading
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Tagged Assassination, Assert, Assumption, Body, Cherished, Cicero, Clarity, Collective Wisdom, Constitutional Hall, Counsel, Despise, Die, Different, Education, Effective, Elder, Elocution, Ends of History, Essay, Estate, Eternity, Experience, Eyes, Fail, Fair Prize, Farm, Folly, Franklin, Freedom, Good Book, Grandparent, Guide, Hands, Heed, History, Ides of March, Immortality, Indignation, Infirmity, Inner Beauty, Integrity, Justice, Kingdom, Law, Leadership, Life, Life's Lessons, Loss, Meditate, Mental Abilities, Mental Faculty, Moments, Moral Duty, Observation, Offer, Old Age, Older, Open, Opportunity, Oratory, Phaedo, Philosopher, Plato, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Quality of Life, Reason, Sacred Ground, Sage, Sensual Pleasures, Sharp, Stage, Sweet Surprise, Teach, Throat, Tides, Time and Again, Triumph, Truth, Tyranny, Use, Useless, Valuable, Versed, Why, Wiser, Wonder, Write, Young
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The Paths Ahead
The Paths Aheadby Pure Love and Michael Romani So many roads yet to be takenSo many choices yet to be givenThe path stretches out beforeWith life yet for us to explore There is a magic in the moreWhen we open … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahead, Believe, Bliss, Choices, Days, Door, Dream, Explore, Fear, Future, Given, Happiness, Holding On, Hope, Imagination, Life, Live, Love and Care, Magic, Melody, Moments, Open, Paths, Peace, Play, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Roads, See, Share, Smiles, Songs, Stream, Stretch, Sun, Taken, Ways
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Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant
Well Done, Good and Faithful Servantby Michael DoyleFinding peace in the house of the LordHaving finally put away ways of the swordTime spent pursuing the Godly thingsAnd the blessings this bringsEach of us giving talents and giftsHealing the wounds and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Blue Sky, Bow, Day, Difficult, Faithful, Faithful Steward, Forward, Godly Things, Good, Gratitude, Heal, House of the Lord, Keeping the Faith, Lift, Lord's Word, Ministry, Open, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Prisons, Promises, Rifts, Servant, Sword, Time Spent, Walk, Well Done, Wounds
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First Principles: The Republican Is the Only Form of Government Which Is Not Eternally At Open Or Secret War With the Rights of Mankind
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” – Thomas Jefferson (1790)
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Tagged Eternal, First Principles, Form, Government, Mankind, Open, Republican, Rights, Secret, Thomas Jefferson, War
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What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew
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First Principles: Slavery Is Such An Atrocious Debasement of Human Nature, That Its Very Extirpation, If Not Performed With Solicitous Care, May Sometimes Open A Source of Serious Evils
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.” – Benjamin Franklin (1789)
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Tagged Atrocious, Benjamin Franklin, Care, Debasement, Extirpation, First Principles, Human Nature, Open, Perform, Serious Evils, Slavery, Source Documents
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First Principles: Slavery Is Such An Atrocious Debasement of Human Nature, That Its Very Extirpation, If Not Performed With Solicitous Care, May Sometimes Open A Source of Serious Evils
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.” -Benjamin Franklin (1789)
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Tagged Atrocious, Benjamin Franklin, Debasement, Extirpation, First Principles, Human Nature, Open, Perform, Serious Evils, Slavery, Solicitous Care, Source
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