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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

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

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To organize Anarchy, is the problem which the revolutionists have and will eternally have to resolve.

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The Sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity.

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

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

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

The rest that follows labor should be sweeter than the rest which follows rest.

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

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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