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Thought For the Day: The Happiest Is the Person Who Suffers the Least Pain; the Most Miserable Who Enjoys the Least Pleasure
“The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher and author (28 Jun 1712-1778)
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Tagged Enjoy, Happiest, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Least, Least Pain, Most Miserable, Person, Pleasure, Suffer, Thought For the Day
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Looking For Words
Looking For Wordsby Michael DoyleI see you looking for wordsBut more than the wordsYou want to read the actionsThat bleed like a rose with satisfactionMaking a difference, plain to seeTo live, love, and dream is to beOne with this universal … Continue reading
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Tagged Accommodate, Actions, Angels, Bleed, Charm, Clarity, Comfortable, Connect, Difference, Distances, Dream, Dreams, Feeling, Friendship, Infinite Role, Life, Live, Looking, Looking For Words, Love, Magic, More Than, Place, Plain To See, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Moments, Read, Rose, Satisfaction, Seams, Seeing, Shared Joy, Sincereity, Sinking, Souls, Spaces, Sparks, Tears, Thinking, Treasure, True Hearts, Truth of the Matter, Universal Soul, Years
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Fold
Foldby Michael DoyleThe gambler’s cards foldedAs variables at last decodedIn this digital age, it’s the human mindThat must last be decoded or left behindIn mankind’s bid at immortalityDespite the babbled towers of immoralityIn the worst of infernal questsTo put living … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Card, Decoded, Digital Age, Discern, Disguise, Fold, Free, Free Will, Freedom, Gambler, Glory, Heir, Human Mind, Illusions The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah, Immorality, Immortality, Lack, Left Behind, Lend, Lesson, Liberty, Life, Living Forever, Mankiind, Misery, Mistake, Narrow Eyes, Old, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Recognize, Story, Suffering, Surmise, Survive, Test, Told, Towers, Transcendence, True Promises, Truth, Twinkle, Variables, Virtuosity, Will, Yore
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In A Spoiler Alert
In A Spoiler Alertby Michael DoyleHere we are quite certain at the end of daysThat all around might want to change our waysIn a spoiler alert, there is a God of creationMeander across His words of sacred communicationIt’s no secret … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdication, Abortion, Autistic Battlefield, Bell Curve Meme, Biology, Bittersweet Legacy, Brave New World, Breath, Change Our Ways, Chaos, Childhood's End, Children, Compulsion, Cool as the Uncool, Days of Lunacy, Death, Defense, Discrete, Drabness of Life, Dystopia, End of Days, Erase, Etermination, Faith and Belief, Final Words, Fire, Firm, Fogged Up Glasses, Forrest Gump, Free Will, Gender Activisits, God of Creation, Grown, Guardian Angels, Heaven, Hell, Homo Deus, Huxley, Ideals of Utopia, Image, Infancy, Intimacy, Jedi Masters, Joke, Judge, Known, Language, Leading Cause, Legitimacy, Light, Lord's Feet, Lost Control, Lucifer, Majority, Male and Female, Meaningless Encounters, Morphed, Motherless Materialism, Nature's Matter, Neutrality, Nightmare, No Secret, Paradise, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Premeditated, Progress, Quite Certain, Realkty, Rebel, Revulsion, Sacred Communication, Seen, Self-Medicated, Social Classes, Spoiler Alert, Subtle, Tautology, Termination, Towers of Babylon, Treasure, Truth, Twisted Desire, Wieghtless Moment, Wings, World Shatters
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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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Thought For the Day: Happy, Happy Christmas, That Can Win Us Back To the Delusions of Childish Days
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back … Continue reading
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Tagged Away, Charles Dickens, Child, Christmas, Days, Delusions, Fireside, Happy, Miles, Old man, Pleasure, Quiet Home, Recall, Sailor, The Pickwick Papers, Thought For the Day, Transport, Traveller, Win, Youth
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First Principles: An Honest Man Can Feel Not Pleasure In the Exercise of Power Over His Fellow Citizens
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)
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Tagged Exercise of Power, Feel, Fellow Citizens, First Principles, Honest Man, Pleasure, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: All Great Human Deeds Both Consume and Transform Their Doers
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an artist, or an independent business creator. In the service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Artist, Athlete, Become, Choices, Consume, Doers, Energy, Goals, Great, Human Deeds, Independent Business Creator, Lois McMaster Bujold, Pleasure, Return, Scientist, Self, Service, Thought For the Day, Time, Transform, True
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Thoughts On Dorian Gray
Thoughts On Dorian Grayby Michael DoyleTextured as it is in prescienceAre those things outside of scienceAmong these is the legend of Dorian GrayOf which there is much yet to sayImages that stick through flesh like a knifeSliced cleanly through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Bacchanalian, Bad Memories, Beauty, Call, Closed Doors, Clown, Commonsense, Crime, Deal, Death, Devil's Altar, Diabolical, Distract, Dorian Gray, Drink Up, Duty, Fair Trade, Flame, Flesh, Folly, Forever, Forgotten Scenes, Frolic, Games, Heart of Life, Hellfire Club, Human, Images, Introduce, Jest, Knife, Legend, Lesson, Life, London Town, Looks, Lost Moment, Memory, More, Nail, Open Door, Party, Philsopher, Pity, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Prescience, Pretense, Price, Reach, Say, Science, Seeker, Seen, Sermon, Shame, Sin, Sketches, Slice, Sould, Sympathy, Tea, Textured, Thoughts, Time, Truth, Vanity, Victorian Days, Ways of Darkness, Worse Dreams, Young
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First Principles: Liberty Must At All Hazards Be Supported. We Have A Right To It, Derived From Our Maker
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their … Continue reading
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Tagged All Hazards, Blood, Bought, Derived, Ease, Estates, Expense, First Principles, John Adams, Liberty, Our Fathers Have Earned, Our Maker, Pleasure, Right, Support, Us
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