"Masonry is too great an institution to have……" — Joseph Fort Newton
"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 own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity."
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Joseph Fort Newton
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13 Quotes by Joseph Fort Newton
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the…
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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 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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