He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Satan isn't anything to believe in but there are people running things whose God is Lucifer. Check out the Lucifierian Doctrine which Albert Pike wrote. He said it is given to 29th-33rd rank Masons in his book Morals and Dogma.
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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
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The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
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If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
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It was a defining symbol of an era. For its supporters, it was 'peace through strength.' For its opponents, it was 'the mad momentum of the arms race.' Both sides cared about it so much. Now it's going out, and nobody even notices.
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Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
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Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
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