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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech
“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)
A Morning’s Meditation
A Morning’s Meditationby Michael Doyle As in the beginning it is nowAs it will ever be yet somehowThough dead in sense from sinIf Christ is in us, we are born again Through the spirit living in eachWe are risen again … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham's Oath, Beginning, Blessed, Bliss, Born Again, Bottomless Mercy, Bringing Hope, Christ, Compassion and Relief, Consolers, Contemplation, Covering Hate, Darkness, Dead, Deceive, Despair, Explanation, Fear, Giving, Grief, Holiness, Hope, In Us, Instruments, Light, Love, Meditation, Meet, Morning, Now, Passing Ages, Path, Persevere, Poetry and Poems, Point of Need, Prayer and Meditation, Prophets, Read, Receive, Redemption, Right, Risen, Sacred Sign, Sages, Salvation, Scriptures, Sense, Sin, Somehow, Spirit Living, Stand Firm, Teach, Walk In the Light, Wisdom, Worthy
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The End of Everything
The End of Everythingby Michael DoyleBeware of a woman’s scornAnd the wrath that followsYou’ll find more than halo tornWhen descending into those hollowsCrippling revenge bring no justiceEuripides puts tragedy into practiceFinding that stronger than a lover’s loveThere are wounds incurable … Continue reading
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Tagged Avalanche, Begins, Betrayals of Life, Beware, Bitten, Blood, Bring, Cajole, Children, Crippling Revenge, Death, Embittered Women, End, End To Everything, Endure, Euripides, Everything, Evil Mind, Fatal Schism, Fits, Foolish, Fruitless, Gods, Greater, Grief, Halo, Hate's Bottomless Cup, Heaven, Hollow, Honeyed Words, Human, Incurable, Jason, Killed, Love, Lover's Hate, Lover's Love, Mortal, Mud, No Justice, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Practice, Price, Quest, Roll, Sense, Shake, Soul, Thoughts, Torn, Tragedy, Twist of Fate, Universe, Wisdom, Woman's Scorn, Wounds, Wrath
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Life For Dummies
Life For Dummiesby Michael DoyleLife for dummiesWould be a fine dealOn in any studyThere are skills to revealBuilding blocks of lifeThat take us from here to thereLessons needed to move past strifeAre to be heeded without fearLiving by the Gospel … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirm, Building Blocks, Darkness, Deal, Discern, Dummies, Embrace, Faith, Favor, Fear, Forgiven, Gift, Given, God, Gospel, Grace, Head, Heart, Heed, Here To There, Kinship, Lessons, Lessons Learned, Lessons Live, Life, Light, Poetry and Poems, Reject, Rejoice, Reveal, Right, Righteousness, Royal, Said, Skills, Step-By-Step, Strife, Study, Through, Voice, Wisdom, Worship
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Investing In Old Age
Investing In Old Ageby Michael DoyleIt has become as sort of a jokeBut one that makes me slightly chokeThe youngest of chronological ageSays as if with the wisdom of a sageThat her dad, me, is growing a bit oldShe laughs … Continue reading
A Republic To Be Kept
A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom
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Interiorly Designed
Interiorly Designedby Michael DoyleThe things that come along to discern thisThat God places use where we can learn goodnessHow then can we make the most of it and embraceWhere God has put us in our time and spaceTo make the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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Under the Potter’s Hands
Under the Potter’s Handsby Michael DoyleUnder the potter’s handsHe forms the clayWe talk, He understandsWe live yet another dayIn our time, we fold handsAcross the world, in many landsTalking to God quietlyRescued from myself politelyGod in His purpose and mercyCorrects … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Day, Burden, Clay, Daily History, Forgiven, God, Grace, Guidance, Hands, Hearts, Hurting, Keys, Kingdom, Lands, Law, Light, Live, Lives, Love, Mercy, Poetry and Poems, Potter, Purpose, Rescue, Right, Talk, Time, Together, Understand, Wisdom, Words, World
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