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We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain for each looks through his own mist.

Albert Pike

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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
Objects
Lone
Level
Peak
Levels
Mist
Land
Plain
Looks
Relative
Towering
Clearly
Waving
Easily
Estimate
Importance
Elevation

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