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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It is Genius that gets Power and its prime lieutenants Are Force and Wisdom. The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.Albert Pike
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashedinto 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 thecurrent... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
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Knowledge is convertible into power, and axioms into rules of utility and duty. But knowledge itself is not Power. Wisdom is Power and her Prime Minister is Justice, which is the perfected law of Truth.
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A man, foreseeing that another will do a certain act, and in nowise controlling or even influencing him may use that Action as an instrument to effect his own purposes.
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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.
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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
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