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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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The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.
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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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That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
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Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.
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The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
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Pride is not the heritage of man humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
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Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
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Work only can keep even kings respectable.
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If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .
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For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.
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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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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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Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
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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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That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
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The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
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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.
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