April,
2008
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¡±and improve myself in
Masonry¡±
¡°In every Lodge, whose financial condition will admit of it, there ought to be a melodeon or organ. It would impart an interest to the work and solemnize the feelings of Brethren, so that we should not so often hear complaints of want of proper solemnity during the lodge work.
It would have a beneficial influence in
extending and improving the taste for this most delightful and refining
science¡±
This is true. It does elevate and refine a
remarkable degree, It fixes the ceremonial in the memory by the same means that
the tender mother teaches her offspring the elements of religion; it sweetens
the temper, prevents weariness, so apt to steal upon the senses, especially of
the laboring man, in the hours of the night. Its uses are well nigh
innumerable.
Nothing is more appropriate, either, to the
ceremonials of Freemasonry, for music is one of the seven liberal arts and
sciences, necessarily alluded to by every Brother who attempts to confer the
Fellow Craft¡¯s Degree, but beautifully expanded and expounded by him who
confers it right.
Robert
Morris, November 15, 1854
Many of the things you can
count, don¡¯t count. Many of the things you can¡¯t count, really do.
Albert Einstein
There is a myth that time is
money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It is a non-renewable
resource. Once you¡¯ve spent it, and if you¡¯ve spent it badly, it¡¯s gone
forever.
Neil Fiore
Laughter is the shortest
distance between two people
Victor Borge
People who think they know
everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac
Asimov
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Bruce Crampton