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Man's action are the picture book of his creeds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. -Ande Maurois

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Many writers and thinkers have tried to define Freemasonry but it really defeats definition. It is too complex, too profound in conception, to easily expressed in words. Perhaps the simplest and best definition of all is the phrase "the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God." Our Masonic forefathers had an understanding of human needs and human aspirations. They may never have dreamed of the mindless computer which governs our lives, or the fission of matter which threatens our lives, but they understood human nature and what motivates the spirit of man. Thus from a simple process of using stone and mortar for building they progressed to the most important of life's functions, the building of character. -Louis L. Williams

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worth wile. -Wilfred T. Grenfell

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God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. -Robert Collyer

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A secret between two is a secret of God; a secret between three is everybodie's secret. -Author Unknown

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Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the days work well. The traveler on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the marrow. Live neither in the past nor the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. -William Osler

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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. -Bruce Barton

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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with sky-lights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason generalize, using the labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict, their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you will reach your destiny. -Carl Schurz

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The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. -Harry Kemp

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The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. -Paul Scherer

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The Society or Fraternity of Freemasnos is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and letures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of charaacter, conservatism, morality and good citizenship. -H. W. Coil

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There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted. -Ralph W. Sockman

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To fulfill the dreams of ones youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. -Willa Cather

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I thoroughly believe in a universal education for both men and women; but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable that a college course without the Bible. -William Lyon Phelps

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The truth is like a balloon and a lie is like a pin, once you pierce the balloon with the pin the balloon, like the truth, becomes worthless. -WRF

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Character is what you are in the dark. -Dwight L. Moody

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Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure. -Alexis Carrel

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Freemasonry is "veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart. -C. H. Claudy

 

 

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