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Albert Pike [1809-1891] American

Rank: 101
Lawyer, Attorney

Albert Pike was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Albert Pike is the only Confederate military officer with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C.

Brainy, War, Alone, Death, Learning, Politics, Sad, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.	Alone, Death	101
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.		102
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.		103
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.	Truth	104
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.		105
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.	Brainy	106
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.	Sad	107
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.	Brainy	108
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.	Learning	109
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.		110
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.	Politics, War	111
Will is the dynamic soul-force.		112
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.	War	113
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.		114
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.		115
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.		116

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