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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
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Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
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A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .
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We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
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Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
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The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
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The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
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