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Tag Archives: Withstand
Love Is A Choice
Love Is A Choiceby Michael DoyleSometimes I silently look at youIn awe and wonder at all you doAnd I know, it’s true what some sayI fall deeper for you with each dayFor the good and bad of this voiceI know … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Times Over, Atttention, Awe and Wonder, Best, Boundary, Choice, Close, Closer Still, Comfort, Cosmos, Depth, Face, Fall Deeper, Forget, Forgiveness, Gauge, God, Good and Bad Days, Grow, Healing, Hold Your Hand, I, Intention, Keep You, Kind, Know, Life, Limits, Live, Look, Love, Love Is A Choice, Loving Embrace, Mind, Moment's Breath, More Than A Feeling, My Love, Needs, Poetic Pretense, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quandary, Quanitfy, Relationships, Remember, Sanctuary, Say, Selfish, Selfless, Sentence, Share, Singulre, Spirituality, Step Forward, Survive, Test, Thrive, True Love, Understand, Upset, Voice, Ways, Whisper, Withstand, World's Strife, Worth, You
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Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)by Michael DoyleOver the course of many stolid yearsI have listened to a tsunami of tearsOver how socialism turned chevere to chimboThe Land of Grace defiled blow by blowThe Land of the Orchids and … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelic Contrast, Army, Beautiful Land, Bloodbath, Bloody Dictatorship, Bolivar, Bullets, Candidate, Courage, Course, Defiance, Dissent, Done, Economic Mismanagement, Election Cycle, Empanadas, Eternal Spring, False Prosperity, Firm, Flowers, Food, Freedom and Liberty, Gauchos, Greater Loss, Hope, Hours, Imprisoning, Intimidating, Jeopdardy, Jester, Kill, Los Llanos, Madness and Buffoonery, Maduro, Marxist Masks, National Depression, Orchids, Outside, Page, Pass the Torch, People's Will, Pessimism, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Policies, Poverty, Prevail, Promise, recipes, Relent, Reliance, Repression, Reprisals, Revolution, Sing, Socialism, South America, Standing, Step Down, Stolen Crown, Street of History, Sun, Tears, The Poor, Totalitarian Comman, Travel, Tsunami, Tyranny, Venezuela, Withstand, Writing
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First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence — true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, All, Appellation, Confidence, Courteous, Entitle, Few, First Principles, George Washington, Intimate, Plant, Shocks, Slow Growth, True Friendship, Well Tried, Withstand
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First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks and adversity before it … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Appellation, Confidence, Courteous, Few, First Principles, George Washington, Intimate, Plant, Shocks, Slow Growth, True Friendship, Well Tried, Withstand
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From the Perspective of the Rus
From the Perspective of the Rusby Michael DoyleStanding on the shoulders of wisdomBy each step we build separate kingdomsThe Brothers Karamazov built on a grain of wheatThat life comes from death and death is not defeatAll the suffering that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Rule, Authority, Autocracy, Beyond, Brothers Karamazov, Capability, Connection, Constantanople, Culture, Death, Declaration, Decree, Defeat, Despotism, Different, Division, Dreams, Driven, Fallible, Forces, Foundation, Freedom Lovers, God, Grain, Historical, History, Kiev, King, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Liberty, Life, Monarch, Mother Russia, Nation, Ninth Century, No Relief, Nobility, Ordained Choice, Orthodoxy, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Purpose, Reflection, Relationships, Reservation, Reverent, Rule, Russia, Sacred, Shoulders, Solzhenitsyn, Soul, Step, Suffering, Supreme, Talk, Temporal, True Belief, Twin Blades, Undergon, United, Viking, Voice, Western Civilization, Wheat, Wisdom, Withstand
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Christ Meets the Grecian World
Christ Meets the Grecian Worldby Michael DoyleThere are things that we’ve learned along the waySuch as that, evil will never truly win the dayAnd that while the devil deals in duplicity A truly good person will always withstand adversityIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Christ, Christianity, Death, Defeated, Devil, Divine, Duplicity, Evil, Foray, Good Person, Gospel of John, Gravity, Grecian World, Intellectual Investigation, Key, Kingdom, Learn, Mystery, Observation, Paradigm, Patterns, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rebbe, Salvation, Testimony, Third Century, Tradition, Wisdom, Wisemen, Withstand
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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Thought For the Day: He Who Has Struggled Constantly With His Ills Becomes Hardened Through Suffering and Yields To No Misfortune
“Bodies grown fat through sloth are weak, and not only labour, but even movement and their very weight cause them to break down. Unimpaired prosperity cannot withstand a single blow; but he who has struggled constantly with his ills becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged Blow, Bodies, Breakdown, Constant, Falls, Fat, Fights, Harden, Ills, Knees, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Misfortune, Prosperity, Sloth, Struggle, Suffering, Thought For the Day, Unimpaired, Weak, Withstand, Yields
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First Principles: True Friendship Grows Slowly and Must Undergo and Withstand the Shocks of Adversity
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
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Tagged Adversity, Appellation, Entitle, First Principles, Friendship, George Washington, Plant, Shock, Slow Growth, True, Undergo, Withstand
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