Assorted quotes about Freemasonry, applicable to Freemasonry, or by Freemasons.
| MW | William Preston | |
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"Masonry is an art, useful and extensive, which comprehends within its circle every branch of useful knowledge and learning, and stamps an indelible mark of pre-eminence on its genuine professors, which neither chance, power, nor fortune can bestow." | ||
| MW | Dr John Dove | |
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"Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality." | ||
| MW | GF Moore | |
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"Masonry is the science of life in a society of men, by signs, symbols and ceremonies; having as its basis a system of morality and for its purpose the perfection and happiness of the individual and the race." | ||
| MW | Julian Rees | |
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"Freemasonry teaches moral lessons and self-knowledge. Here Masons take their stand. From this point, we as Freemasons start our journey, our quest for self-knowledge, a path leading us to the inmost parts of ourselves, our own psyche and our own soul." | ||
| MW | Anon | |
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"If you want your work to be Square, don't cut corners." | ||
| MW | Anon | |
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"Simply attending a Lodge does not make anyone a mason any more than standing in a garage makes them a car." | ||
| MW | Albert Pike | |
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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." | ||
| MW | John Ruskin | |
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"The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learn, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice." | ||
| MW | William K Bailey | |
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"I would say there are three steps in Masonry. The first step is the ritual; the second step would be the fellowship to be taken and enjoyed; and the third step would be Masonic information for enlightenment or education." | ||
| MW | JF Newton | |
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"It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernible in the oldest documents of the order." | ||