Albert Pike Quotes

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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…
• 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,…
• Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store; The absent…
• That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness…
• We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
• Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance.…
• Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
• It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of…
• A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
• The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other…
• The Light could not unite with darkness. It but put on the appearance of a human body, and took the name of Christ in the…
• A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable.

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