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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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Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

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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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That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

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Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

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We all not only have better intimations, but are capable of better things than we know.

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If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

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Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

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Masonry is not a religion.
He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

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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.

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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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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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To present a visible symbol to the eye of another, is not necessarily to inform him of the meaning which that symbol has to you.

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There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

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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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Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

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The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

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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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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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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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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

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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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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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All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.

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A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life. There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness.

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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

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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 doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.

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