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First Principles: He Whose Heart Is Firm, and Whose Conscience Approves His Conduct, Will Pursue His Principles Unto Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
As It Is With the Moon Above
As It Is With the Moon Aboveby Michael DoyleIn all the suffering behind poetryIt plays out deeply as if in melancholyIt’s a pouring out of love and painSomething lettered and yet still in vainSunshine and spring are simply a prefaceFor … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, As It Is, Beyond Reason, Blink of the Eye, Chilled, Compulsions of Love, Deep, Deep Passion, Embrace, In Vain, Just Our Luck, Lettered, Love and Pain, Melancholy, Moon, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Out, Practicality, Preface, Presses On, Pursue, Silvery Moon Above, Soon Gone, Source of Joy, Suffering, Sunshine and Spring, Things of Passion, Things That We Do, Thunderstruck, Time, Trickery, Warmth, Way of Love, Whole New World, Winter
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)
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Tagged First Principles, George Washington, One, Pursue, Seek, Steadily, Straight Course, Truth
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society. It Ever Has Been and Ever Will Be Pursued Until It Is Obtained, or, Until Liberty Be Lost In the Pursuit
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged End of Civil Society, End of Government, First Principles, James Madison, Justice, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Pursue, Pursuit
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Aim, Art of Government, Being Honest, Consists, Counselors, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Great Principles, Legible, Mankind, Pursue, Reader, Require, Right and Wrong, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: ‘Tis the Business of Little Minds To Shrink; But He Whose Heart Is Firm and Whose Conscience Approves His Conduct Will Pursue His Principles Unto Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Approves, Business, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, Firm, First Principles, Gather Strength, Grow Brave, Heart, Little Minds, Love, Principles, Pursue, Reflection, Shrink, Smile, The Person, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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Reality Check
To listen to the DNC the last 2 nights and a portion of today, you would think they could do no evil and that President Trump can do no right. If perhaps you don’t fact check what they say and … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Way, Axe, Biden, Burn, Cherish, Cities, City on the Hill, Clever, Corpus, Country, DNC Convention, Encourage, Fatal, Feign, Folly, Forgotten, Harris, History, Judge, Kumbaya, Laurels, lLessons, Losers, Mystery, Nominate, Past, Perish, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Pursue, Reality Check, Rest of the World, Standards, To learn, Today, Users, Viigilance, Wreck
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Bucket List Cools
During this time of limited travel and doing what we can to get through while making history simply by living as well as possible as we adapt to Covid, it’s maybe time to look at bucket lists. Bucket List Cools … Continue reading
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Tagged Aces, Adapt, Beginning, Bloom, Bring Me, Bucket List, Burning Hot, Checking My List Off, Coming Up, Conspire, Cool, Covid, Crossed Off, Determine, Done, Dreaming, Dreams, Every Day, Everything, Feel, Flames, Forgot, Full Life, Get My Living In, Global, Golden, Growing Room, Heart, High Fever, History, Inside, Know the Way, Last Chance, Living, Lock Down, Making History, Making the Best, Mind, Move, Mystery, Need, Once Again, One By One, Opportunity, Passionate, Photograph, Photos, Planted, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pursue, Pushing Too Hard, Remains, Roads, Rules, Running, Seed, Shake, Shimmy, Sown, Travel, Universe, Victor's Crown, Wild Card, Wire
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