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«A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.»
«Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
accompany, comparison, doubting, faculty, Faculty of, improvement, onward, preliminary, prerogative, prerogatives, questioning, stages, The Faculty
«He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most me»
«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»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
Brotherhood,
Mankind,
Sorrow,
Suffering
| Keywords:
brotherhood, constitutes, encounter, sympathize, sympathizes, sympathize with
«The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
antipathies, antipathy, attraction, fixedness, radiation, The Double
«The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
Body,
Medicine,
Mind,
Soul
| Keywords:
Body The, combination, mathematical, quintessence
«We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.»
«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.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
capacities, honorable, rank, requirements, title
«Will is the dynamic soul-force.»
«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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