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Letter "A" » Albert Pike Quotes
«What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
Altruism,
Generosity
| Keywords:
done for, immortal
«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 is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
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«Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.»
«True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
duration, elixir, elixirs, endures, enduring
«The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.»
«A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Mind,
Thinking
| Keywords:
actual, controlling, Human thought
«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 Stars.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
blaze, cognizable, emit, emits, emitted, emitting, planets, Word of God
«Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
Genius,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
almost all, artisan, artisans, artists, noblest, philosophers, professional, scholars
«One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.»
«A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| Keywords:
ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, Great War
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