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To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.

— 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.

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

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

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