"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid;……" — Joseph Fort Newton
"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."
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Joseph Fort Newton
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13 Quotes by Joseph Fort Newton
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Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of…
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Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.
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Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into…
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Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but…
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Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes…
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Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts…
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More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine…
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To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person,…
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Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things…
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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens…
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Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.
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As some of us prefer to put it, Masonry is not a religion but Religionnot a church but a worship,…
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