Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What men and women need is encouragement . . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. -Eleanor H. Porter
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Recognize that neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had. It is what you live in. You can drift or you can swim, and it will carry you along either way. -James Gleick
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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in. -Robert Collier
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Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. -Dottie Walters
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will bethere, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation. -Bernard Baruch
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic." — Bro. Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
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''Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. '' HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
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Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue. – CALCOTT
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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." -Albert Pike
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As a man, casting off worn-out garments,
taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out
bodies, entereth into others that are new...For sure is the death
of him that is born, and sure the birth of him that is dead; therefore
over the inevitable though shouldst not grieve.
-The Bhagavad Gita
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"We strive to destroy the evil around us. Yet, we often forget that there is no light without darkness, nor darkness without light. Perhaps a plant it the best analogy. A plant realizes that too little light is deadly, but it also knows that too much light is equally deadly. It is the balance of the two that makes the world." -Lycorne
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"The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits its soul." -John Chiam
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The greatest and the smallest, light and
dark, right and wrong - they all come together to form the miracle
that is life, and none can exist without the others.
-Silvetris
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Grand Lodges have two duties. One is to promote and encourage positive change and the other is not to allow innovation. Many of our members have trouble understanding this concept……..Go Figure. Neil
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"What distinguishes great from merely competent leaders is the ability not just to tolerate but to seek out and encourage dissenting ideas from a diverse group of people. Great leaders have always drawn on this talent to devise bold solutions to daunting new challenges." -Carol Hymowitz
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Going to Lodge does make anyone a mason more than standing in a garage makes them a car
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Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
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Everyone has a photographic memory. Some
don't have film.
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