Albert Pike
Albert Pike
Albert Pikewas an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Albert Pike is the only Confederate military officer with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth29 December 1809
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
morning selfish son
Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!
circles squares justice
Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
hypocrisy justice pay
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .
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The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!
lying littles majesty
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .
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Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.
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The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
lasts life-is our-lives
That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
greatness envy reverence
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
done deeds helping
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
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Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
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There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.