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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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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.
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We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
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There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
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Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer.
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Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
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Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
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All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
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Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.
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That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
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