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All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.

— Bryan Procter My Books: Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.

Pity speaks to grief
More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue;
A string which hath no discord.

Within the midnight of her hair,
Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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