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Books Read Throughout Life
Books Read Throughout Lifeby Michael DoyleIn a repeated mantra of lifeIn all the things we have soughtThere is the truth reflectedIn lessons accidentally taughtIn this and all stages of lifeWe find it’s worth another lookTo sit and quietly curl upWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Taught, Another, Books, Connectives, Curl Up, Excuse, Experience, Failed, Finding Hope, Genius, Golden Rule, Guess, Hamlet, Know Better, Lessons, Look for the Less, Mantra, Mediocre Minds, Nobility, Our Eyes, Philosophy, Playwright, Poetry and Poems, Read, Reflective, Shakespeare, Sit, Sought, Space, Stage, Stages of Life, Steep, Stumble, Tragic Comedy, Truth Reflected, Vengeance, Words, World, Worth Another Look, Wrong, Yet to Learn, Youth
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First Principles: The Only Foundation For A Useful Education In A Republic Is To Be Laid On the Foundation of Religion…Without This There Can Be No Virtue, and Without Virtue There Is No Liberty
“I proceed … to inquire what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all of the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of the youth; and here I beg leave to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Benjamin Rush, First Principles, Foundation of Religion, Inquire, Liberty, Mode of Education, New Testament, Object and Life, Only Foundation, Proper Instruction, Religion, Republic, Republican Governments, Secure the State, Useful Education, Virtue, Youth
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Deepest Roots
Deepest Rootsby Michael DoyleCast about with questioning looksThere’s much to be learned from great booksWhen we unlock our dulled hesitationsAnd dare to ask the great questionsAlthough the human spirit is quite flappableIt doesn’t take a lot to realize, we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask, Cannot Shake, Cast About, Dare, Decisions, Determine, Determined, Determining Our Course, Essence of Things, Fallen Sage, Flappable, Fragile Youth, Fullest Passion, Goethe, Grasping, Great Books, Great Questions, Hestitations, Human Spirit, Incalculable Ways, Learn, Life Should Be Lived, Love of Life, Old Age, Passing Days, Pleasure of Fashion, Poetry and Poems, Private Resolution, Questioning Look, Realize, Revolution, Searching, Set Fast, Shaken As It Is, Sorrow, Spoken Aloud, Stirring, Straws, Tomorrow, Truth, Unconquerable, Unlocked, Werther, Wise, Youth
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Lies For Truth
Lies For Truthby Michael DoyleThere’s a lot of people mistakingThe Devil’s lies for the truthIt’s an easy road to heartbreakEspecially, in our bolder youthChasing at golden bits of hilarityWith blinders on as we strain to seeSeeking after just a little … Continue reading
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Tagged All We Cannot Eat, At Our Hands, Blinders On, Bold, Buffet, Clarity, Door, Doubt, Easy Road, Fill, For the Truth, From Things, Golden Bits, Heart, Heartbreak, Hilarity, Hope Rest, Humanity, Jaded Temptation, Lies For Truth, Life, Lost, Lot of Peopole, Mental War, Mistake, Never Fully Understand, Offer, Open, Paid In Full, Passages, Passions Burn, Poetry and Poems, Proffer, Puzzle, Realize, Redemption, Sincerity, Star-Gazing, Strain to See, Struggle, The Devil's Lies, The Wages of Sin, Work Out, Youth
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For God So Loved the World
For God So Loved the Worldby Michael DoyleSpeaking across the latitude of agesComes the noble language of sagesTouching each soul as each an individualComprehended as fully as we are capableEternal questions fill up our needAs we learn and grow as … Continue reading
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Tagged Acclamation, Act, Adventure, Adversity, Ages, All, Angels, Appear Evil, Atone, Atrocious, Attest, Bane, Beleiver, Believe, Blasphemy, Blind See, Blood, Blur, Bureaucrat, Burn, Capable, Cast, Celebration, Christ, Christian Persecution, Clear, Comprehend, Conspire, Convert, Core, Corruption, Dangerous Man, Darkness, Death, Deception, Deliverance, Den of Thieves, Destroy, Detail, Die, Different Preceptions, Distraction, Divine, Divine Love, Divine Spark, Divniity, Each Human, Emperor, Empty, Ends, Etched, Eternal Questions, Everlasting Life, False Accusation, False Security, False Wisdom, Fear, Feel, Fire, First Stone, Flesh, Forever, Forgiveness, Found, Frame, Free, Friends, Fullness, Fully, God, Grow, Guides, Heal Disease, Healing, Heaven and Earth, Heavens, Hereafter, Higher Purpose, Holy, Holy Name, Human Depravity, Humanity Haters, In the Beginning, Incorporation, Indignity, Individual, Innocent Man, Jealous Deity, Jesus, John, Judgment, Last Breath, Laughter, Learn, Learn From the Past, Legacy, Light, Live, Live This, Living God, Living Word, Locked In A Struggle, Logos, Lord, Loved, Meet All, Messiah, Miracle of Gladness, Miss, Money Changers, Morality, More, Motivate, Mount Olive, Mystery, Necessary, Need, Nero, No Guilt, Noble Language, Open Wide, Ordinary People, Path, Pharisees, Philosophical, Photograph, Pilate, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Preach, Price To Be Paid, Professors, Prose, Purity, Purpose, Read, Reason, Rebbe, Recognition, Rejoice, Renounce, Revealed, Right, Rigorous Test, Roman Nation, Romance, Rome, Sacraments, Sacrifice, Sages, Samaritan, Sanctification, Sand, Save, Scapegoated, Season, Self Procliaimed, Self Righteous, Seneca, Sent Into the World, Serve, Sin No More, Sophia, Soul, Soul Slavation, Speak, Step, Stolen, Stone, Suffering, Suffering of the Lamb, Supreme Lesson, Surface, Synoptic Gospels, Teaches, the Word, Theology, To Set Us Free, Tomb, Touch, Transforming, True Divinity, True Necessity, Truth, Turning Water Into Wine, Understand, Universe, Us, Verse, Walking on Water, Washed His Hands, Water of Life, Weak, Well, Wisdom, Without Sin, Witness, Words, World, Wrath, Wrong Kingdom, Youth
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Promises Meant To Keep
Finally got to watch the redo of The Lion King. I have to say that I don’t know if it’s the passing of time or what, but, watching this again was just wonderful. I really enjoyed the show very much. Promises … Continue reading
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Tagged African Plain, Birth, Blessing, Canyon Rim, Care, Fair, Falling Star, Happiness, Keep, Life, Love, Magic, Mean, Not In Vain, Parents, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promises, Reverence, Ritual, Sacred Heart, Share, Sunset, The Lion King, Youth
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Theatrical Dawg Bones Thrown
However much the director whines that he’s only got 2 1/2 hours to present his hip hop distortions of American history and however much he manages to make his errors rhyme and dance match the music’s time, I don’t appreciate … Continue reading
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Tagged 1619 Project, All Life Is Sacred, All Lives Matter, America, American History, Anyone, Believe, Blackfaced, BLM, Cancel Culture, Catching Lightning In A Bottle, Come A Time, Complex, Contribution, Create, Cull, Debate, Disguise, Distortion, Elevate, Equality, Errors, Evangelists, Fallacious, Falsehoods, Falsity, Feet, Fight, Flip Side, Founders, Frederick Douglass, From the Beginning, Fundamentals, Glory, Great Story, Hamilton, Heart and Soul, Heritage, Hip Hop, History, Holding True, Image, Immigrants, Immigration, Joy, Justice, Land of Mine, Less of a History, Lies, Martin Luther King Jr, Marxism, Marxist, Mediocrity, Misconceived, Miscreant, Musical, Narrative, Nation, Norm, Notions, NPR, Opposed, Outright Mockery, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Presupposed, Principles, Racist Pride, Rap, Realize, Recall, Reflective, Repercussions, Reserve Racism, Revolution, Rhyme and Dance, Rock the Streets, Ruin, Seen As, Set Loose, Shame, Shine, Society, Speaking In Terms, Spotlight, Study, Stupdendous, Theater, Transform, Trap, Travesty, Truth, Well Rehearsed, Youth
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Lessons From Life’s Jungles
There are laws that are met in all jungles be these forested or concrete. The two most vital are survival and truth. Lessons From Life’s Jungles by Michael Doyle The jungle has two laws Survival and truth There is no … Continue reading
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Tagged Always, Ample, Anger, Be Fair, Belongs, Best, Best Lessons, Best of Life, Bitterness, Change, Choices, Close To Shore, Concrete, Danger, Each Person and Thing, Earned, Escape Clause, Eyes Forward, Fate, Firm, Forest, Forget, Fortune, Humor, Ignore, Jaws, Jungle, Jungle's Laws, Jungles, Last, Learn, Learned, Less, Lesson, Lessons, Lies, Life, Life's Lessons, Live Life, Lwas, Moments, Monkey, Must, Narrow, Not Learned, Ones, Opportunities, Particular, Parts Unknown, Past, Path Taken, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Room, Self, Shelf, Somewhere, Start, Straight As An Arrow, Streets, Strong, Surprise, Survival, Taught By Example, Too Late, Trust, Truth, Tumor, Us, Vital, Want, What's In Store, Youth
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