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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
Peculiarly
Indispensable
Justice
Nations

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That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
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Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instruction in religion.
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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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It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
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Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
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Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
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I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
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To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'
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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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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
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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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