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In the Precedent of 2020
In the Precedent of 2020by Michael DoyleThere is something setQuietly there in the precedentAn unlikely principle we forgetThat we’d not be without accidentWho it is that we are todayI hope that’s not too flippant to sayThat despite our efforts to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Acceptance, Accident, Afraid, Answers, Beautiful, Beyond Cure, Border, Cherry Pick, Come and Go, Conceal, Contagion, Contemporary, Contrary, Converse, Crumble, Dare Not, Deinfe, Detail, Doctors, Efforts, End, Enforced Isolation, Familiar, Family Tree, Fantastic, Fealty, Find Our Way To Right, Flippant, Forget, Heads In Books, Heal, Impure, Ingredients, Intimacy, Itch, Light, Madness, Minds, Necessary, Noise, Notes In Bottle, Obsessive Order, One Another, Out of Order, Pan Flute, Patience of A Saint, Photograph, Pledge, Poem, Poetry, Popping Pills, Precedent, Quiet, Reality, Reverse, Sanity, Scratch, Send, Set, Sheer Edge, Still, Storms, Straighten, Sympathy, Tea, Teach, Today, Tragedy, Tremble, True, Unlikely Principle, Unpredictability, Whisper, Wind, Window Shopping, Wish, World, Wrong
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First Principles: It Does Not Take A Majority To Prevail… But Rather An Irate, Tireless Minority, Keen On Setting Brush Fires of Freedom In the Minds of Men
“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.” – Samuel Adams
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Tagged Brushfires, First Principles, Freedom, Irate, Majority, Mankind, Minds, Minority, Prevail, Samuel Adams, Set, Take, Tireless
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Thought For the Day: Angry Answers Stir Up Men’s Passions, But Never Convince Their Judgments, Nor Set Truth In A Clear Light
“Angry answers stir up men’s passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light.” – Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
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Tagged Angry, Answers, Clear Light, Judgment, Matthew Henry, Never Convince, Passion, Set, Stir Up, Thought For the Day, Truth
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First Principles: All the World Would Gain By Setting Commerce At Perfect Liberty
“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Tagged All, Commerce, First Principles, Gain, Liberty, Perfect, Set, Think, Thomas Jefferson, World
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The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share
Based in part on Exodus 20:17: The Temptation of Wanting Another’s Share by Michael Doyle It’s hard to be content in comparison Always measuring yourself on what is done By others when your race is your own Only to be … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Action, All, Another's, Bait, Better, Brother, Comparison, Content, Contentment, Course, Covet, Desire, Discontentment, Do, Done, Door, Eve, Exodus, Fact, Faith, Fall, Far, Forbidden, Friends, God's Throne, Had, Hand, Happy, Hard, Have, Heart, Instead, Keep, Keep Your Eyes, Look, Measure, More, No Further, Offer, Others, Paul, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Race, Reverence, Rich, Run, Safe, Satisfaction, Self, Serpent, Service, Set, Share, Sin, Sister, Snare, Soul, Star, Stem, Tempt, Temptation, Treasure, True, Truth, Want, Well, Wise, You, Your Own
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First Principles: All the World Would Gain By Setting Commerce At Perfect Liberty
“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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Tagged Commerce, First Principles, Gain, Liberty, Perfect, Set, Think, Thomas Jefferson, World
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Death and A Desert God
A further adventure in Egyptian myth. Death and A Desert God by Michael Doyle Without ambition, Horus would quietly assert That to kill a desert god, you must kill the desert To kill a desert, requires Ra, God of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Ambition, Appetite, Bay, Breath, Chaos, Conceal, Creation, Creator, Cruel, Dark, Death, Decay, Desert, Destiny, Destruction, Dreams, Drown, Edict, Egypt, Embrace, Equal, Fight, Flight, Glory, God, Height, Hell Hounds, Hopes, Horus, Journey, Kill, Light, Lord, Might, Mortal, Night, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quest, Ra, Rot, Scarabs, Set, Shine, Stray, Sun, Uncertain, Water, Will
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Set’s Legacy
A continuing look at Egyptian myth: Set’s Legacy by Michael Doyle Only a mad man would steal Those things that a god would conceal Two bridges rigged with traps Cloaked in the veil of mystery wraps All power is centered … Continue reading
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Tagged Anubis, Banks, Blaze, Blind, Border, Breath, Bridges, Cheat, Clever, Cloak, Conceal, Darkness, Dead, Deal, Death, Deceive, Deception, Deed, Defy, Descend, Ear, Egyptian, End, Eternal, Evil, Eyes, Fame, Fates, Forgiving, Friends, God, Grace, Harshness, Heart, History, Immortality, Journey, Labyrinth, Legacy, Light, Living, Love, Lovers, Mad Man, Mortality, Mystery, Myth, Nile, Nine Gates, Obelisk, Order, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Proclaim, Reverence, Secret, Set, Skies, Smile, Speak, Steal, Strong, Sun, Thousand, Trap, Truth, Two, Undone, Veil, Whisper, Wish, Wound
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