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Will is the dynamic soul-force. (Albert Pike)
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. View quote
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The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. View quote
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. View quote
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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. View quote
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. View quote
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Duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle. View quote
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Knowing the slow processes by which the Deity brings about great results, he does not expect to reap as well as sow, in a single lifetime. It is the inflexible fate and noblest destiny, with rare exceptions, of the great and good, to work, and let others reap the harvest of their labors. View quote
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Remember, that though life is short, Thought and the influences of what we do or say, are immortal; and that no calculus has yet pretended to ascertain the law of proportion between cause and effect. View quote
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We all not only have better intimations, but are capable of better things than we know. View quote
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Those who forget the rights of others, must not be surprised if their own are forgotten. (Albert Pike)
It is, civilly, all aptitudes having equal opportunity; politically, all votes having equal weight; religiously, all consciences having equal rights. View quote
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Life is no negative, or superficial or worldly existence. Our steps are evermore haunted with thoughts, far beyond their own range, which some have regarded as the reminiscences of a preesistent state. View quote
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Justice in no wise consists in meting out to another that exact measure of reward or punishment which we think and decree his merit, or what we call his crime, which is more often merely his error, deserves. View quote
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Let the Mason never forget that life and the world are what we make them by our social character; by our adaptation, or want of adaptation to the social conditions, relationships, and pursuits of the world. View quote
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Let no Fellow-Craft imagine that the work of the lowly and uninfluential is not worth the doing. View quote
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But in this association there is no abdication. View quote
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To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted. View quote
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Labor is the truest emblem of God, the Architect and Eternal Maker; noble Labor, which is yet to be the King of this Earth, and sit on the highest Throne. View quote
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To present a visible symbol to the eye of another, is not necessarily to inform him of the meaning which that symbol has to you. View quote
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When, or who shall gather it, it does not in the least concern us to know. It is our business to plant the seed. (Albert Pike)
All eyes do not see alike. Even the visible creation is not, for all who look upon it, of one form and one color. View quote
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To organize Anarchy, is the problem which the revolutionists have and will eternally have to resolve. View quote
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Wherever a heart beats with love, wherever Faith and Reason utter their oracles, there is God, as formerly in the hearts of seers and prophets. No soil on earth is so holy as the good man's heart. View quote
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We are too apt to erect our own little and narrow notions of what is right and just, into the law of justice, and to insist that God shall adopt that as His law; to measure off something with our own little tape-line, and call it God's law of justice. Continually we seek to ennoble our own ignoble love of revenge and retaliation, by misnaming it justice. View quote
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