100 Ancient Freemasons' Life Lessons to Create Advantages in Life

love your enemies for they tell you your faults always acknowledge fault frankly this will throw those in Authority off guard and give you an opportunity to make a choice violand they're not making it anymore the longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us an investment in knowledge pays the best interest always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much I think there is only one quality worse than Hardness of Heart and that is softness of head a man can never have too much red wine too many books or too much ammunition blessed is he that expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not the reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when Opportunity Knocks they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers when you are asked if you can do a job tell them certainly I can then get busy and find out how to do it rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt by failing to prepare you are preparing to fail whatever is begun in anger ends in shame if you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble you wouldn't sit for a month keep your eyes wide open before marriage half shut afterwards our labor preserves us from three great evils weariness Vice and want dust thou love life then do not squander time for that's the stuff life is made of it is enough that people of the nation do not understand our Banking and monetary system for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning think how difficult it is to change yourself and you will understand how insignificant your opportunities are to change others do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain the only time you really live fully is from 30 to 60. the younger slaves to dreams the old Servants of regrets only the middle age to have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits lengthen thy life lessen thy meals you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man he is sure to find an easy way of doing it the happiest of all lives is a busy solitude if you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous you will not bite you this is the principal difference between a dog and a man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others never argue with stupid people they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience tricks and treachery of the practice of fools they don't have brains enough to be honest he that falls in love with himself will have no rivals the truth must be served like a coat and not thrown in the face like a wet towel hide not your talents Bay for use were made what's a sundial in the shade keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great when you're finished changing you're finished there are many ways of going forward but only one way of standing still right injury is in dust benefits in marble associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in Bad Company if a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him I would rather obey a fine lion much stronger than myself than 200 Rats of my own species let us live so that when we come to die even the Undertaker will be sorry one of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do actions are the seeds of fate Deeds grow into destiny one ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it if you do that you will double the danger but if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering big jobs usually go to The Men Who prove their ability to outgrow small ones the greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but far more difficult still to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment he that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else circumstances make man not man circumstances what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others in the world remains and is immortal better a broken promise than none at all the most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with it is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him if you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing you're right there is no sadder sight than a young pessimist courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen the man who was a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it he knows too little whatever a man's age he can reduce it by several years by putting a bright colored flower in his buttonhole life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late when in doubt tell the truth there are 869 different forms of lying but only one of them has been squarely forbidden Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor who have enemies good that means you've stood up for something sometime in your life it is the little conveniences that make the real comfort of life to be busy is man's only happiness failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently only two things we'll regret on Deathbed that we are a little loved and little traveled I'm an old man and I have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money never argue with a fool onlookers may not be able to tell the difference when you're good to others your best to yourself what more valuable than gold diamonds then diamonds virtue courage is resistance to fear Mastery of fear not absence of fear search others for their virtues thyself for thy vices it is better to take many injuries than to give one in this world nothing could be said to be certain except death and taxes there are three things extremely hard Steel a diamond and to know one's self labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience it is the Working Man Who is the happy man it is the idle man who is the miserable man we lavish gifts upon children but the most precious gift our personal association which means so much to them we give grudgingly they who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety he that can have patience can have what he will money has never made man happy nor will it there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness the more of it one has the more one wants don't hit it at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft some people die at 25. and aren't buried until 75. at 20 years of age the will Reigns at 30. the wit and at 40. the judgment there is no man living that can do more than he thinks he can it is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them foreign and a shadow attend only while the sun shines I saw a few die of hunger of eating a hundred thousand he that speaks much is much mistaken of all the Liars in the world sometimes the worst are our own fears the most important decision you make is to be in a good mood the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing the whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's Destiny to do and then do it if passion drives you let reason hold the Reigns continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential we make a living by what we get we make a Life by what we give in any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing do what you can with what you have Where You Are

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Published: Mon Mar 27 2023