Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies … - Albert Pike

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Albert Pike

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Bravery, Enemy, Spirit, Temptation, Temptations

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Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

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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.

Deed, Deeds, Done, Effect, Helping, Humblest

Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.

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Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Faith, Exhausted, Reason

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.

Indispensable, Justice, Nations, Peculiarly

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