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Work only can keep even kings respectable.

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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
Keep
Even
Work
Respectable
Kings

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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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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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Justice to others and to ourselves is the same that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
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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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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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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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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
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Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
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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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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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We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
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The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
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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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The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .
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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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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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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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