Margaret Halsey
American writer (1910-1997)
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
Albert Pike was a prominent 19th-century American figure, serving as a lawyer, poet, and Confederate Army general. He was also a high-ranking Freemason, leading the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite’s Southern Jurisdiction for over 30 years.
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Albert Pikewas an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865. He had previously served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. A prominent member of the Freemasons, Pike served as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891.
Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865.
Albert Pike served as a senior officer in the Confederate States Army, commanding the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
Albert Pike was a prominent member of the Freemasons and served as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891.
Albert Pike was born on December 29, 1809, and died on April 2, 1891.
In addition to his military service, Albert Pike was an author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, and jurist, serving as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
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.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
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.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
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.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
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.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
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.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
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.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
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.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court (1864-1865)