A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. — Quoted

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“A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”

Albert Pike · Politics

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Albert Pike

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.

Men

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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Learning

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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.

Loneliness

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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.

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