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> [It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/it-is-not-strange-that-men-of-note-and-learning-attracted-by-the/)

[Joseph Fort Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-fort-newton/)

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> [Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/masonry-is-too-great-an-institution-to-have-been-made-in-a-day-much/)

[Joseph Fort Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-fort-newton/)

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## Other authors on Fraternity

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## More by Joseph Fort Newton

> [To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/to-be-happy-is-easy-enough-if-we-give-ourselves-forgive-others-and/)

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> [Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/each-lodge-is-an-oasis-if-equality-and-good-will-in-a-desert-of/)

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> [As some of us prefer to put it, Masonry is not a religion but Religionnot a church but a worship, in which men of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/as-some-of-us-prefer-to-put-it-masonry-is-not-a-religion-but/)

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> [London is like a dream come true. As I ramble through it I am haunted by the curious feeling of something half-forgotten, but still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/london-is-like-a-dream-come-true-as-i-ramble-through-it-i-am-haunted/)

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> [God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/god-works-for-man-through-man-and-seldom-if-at-all-in-any-other-way/)

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> [A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/a-duty-dodged-is-like-a-debt-unpaid-it-is-only-deferred-and-we-must/)

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> [Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/masonry-superadds-to-our-other-obligations-the-strongest-ties-of/)

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> [The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/the-discovery-of-the-square-was-a-great-event-to-the-primitive/)

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> [So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/so-many-of-us-know-what-we-are-against-but-not-what-we-are-for-what/)

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> [Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/love-is-lost-in-immensities-it-comes-in-simple-gentle-ways/)

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> [“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/men-build-too-many-walls-and-not-enough-bridges/)

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> [We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/we-cannot-tell-what-may-happen-to-us-in-the-strange-medley-of-life/)

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> [Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/masonry-was-not-made-to-divide-men-but-to-unite-them-leaving-each-man/)

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> [More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/more-than-an-institution-more-than-a-tradition-more-than-a-society/)

[Joseph Fort Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-fort-newton/)

> [It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fort-newton/it-is-not-strange-that-men-of-note-and-learning-attracted-by-the/)

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