There is no institution more moral than the Masonic Lodge, or a stronger brotherhood anywhere. --Brother C. Pylate Price 2001
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''It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. '' --BRO.THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson
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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." Pike
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. -Winston Churchill
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Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain
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The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge of ourselves by the same test; for it is on that on which our success in life depends. -William Hazlitt
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Men acquire a particular quality by acting a particular way. . . . We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. -Aristotle
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature . . . is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. -Henri F. Amiel
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Man is not logical, and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can find of his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. -John Dewey
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We owe our children a set of good habits;
for habit is to be their best friend or their worst enemy, not
only during childhood, but through all the years. We shall therefore
need to repeat every now and then nature's irrevocable law: that
back of every habit lies a series of acts; that ahead
of every act lies a habit; that habit is nine-tenths of conduct;
that conduct is but character in the making; and that character
ends in destiny. -George Herbert Betts
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All rising to great place is by a winding stair. -Sir Francis Bacon
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There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others we convince ourselves. -The Letters of Junius, #35
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One must learn to love, and go through a
good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail,
and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from
it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more
than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding
of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only
thing which endures.
-D. H. Lawrence
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If you are wise,
You will mingle one thing with the other-
Not hoping without doubt;
Not doubting without hope.
-Seneca
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For gold his sword the hireling ruffian
draws,
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws;
Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys,
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.
-Samuel Johnson: The Vanity Of Human Wishes
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. -Bernard M. Baruch
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Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within."
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"Watch the stars, and from them learn.
To the Master's honor all must turn,each in its track, without
a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground." -- translation
by Dave Fredrick
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