If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau
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It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation." -Calvin Coolidge
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All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke
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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. -Samuel Ullman
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The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. -Albert Einstein
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If you see something wrong and don't correct it, you have just set a new standard. -Author Unknown
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All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy. Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be. -Joseph Canpbell
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Beauty is God's handwriting. -Charles Kingley
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I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but see nothing in sea and sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling and mind than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night in ignorance and insensibility. -Hellen Keller
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Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. -William Howard Taft
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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a mater of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; a matter of will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life. -Author Unknown
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The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. -Paul Scherer
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"It is most reverently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race." -George Washington
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There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted. -Ralph W. Sockman
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We ought to hear at least one little song every day, read a good poem, see a first-rate painting, and if possible speak a few sensible words. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection. -Fulton J. Sheen
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Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. -Winston Churchill
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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists. -William Salter
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. -William Ellery Channing
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"I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States." -Theodore Rosevelt
