Lodges Quotes

• Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

  Ben Jonson

  Soul, Age, Delight

  'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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• The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Dedication, Knowing

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• O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
  O for an iceberg or two at control!
  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
  O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

  Rossiter Johnson

  Summer, Garden, July

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Real, Heart

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• It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.

  Ellen Goodman

  Memories, Grandpa, Video

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• It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Journey, Doubt, Vices

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• Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Oasis, League, Definitions

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• All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Moving, Exercise, Science

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• Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

  John Henry Jowett

  Kings, House, Masters

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• The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

  Anne Michaels

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.121, Emblem Editions

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• In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Baseball, Science, Dust

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• But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

  Moby

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

  Dion Fortune

  Team, Suffering, Stronger

  Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.85, Dion Fortune

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• Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

  William Cowper

  War, Successful, Solitude

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• One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

  Winston Churchill

  Afterlife, Chinese, May

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• Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.

  Black Kettle

  Horse, Believe, Native American

  "Who is the Savage?" by Black Kettle, www.pbs.org. 2001.

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• You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls.

  Ten Bears

  Wall, Fear, Medicine

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• Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there,” said Will. “It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

  Cassandra Clare

  Silly, Upset, Shadow

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• The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Children, Hate, Animal

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.

  Douglas Adams

  Sorry, Mean, Light

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1)". Book by Douglas Adams (Chapter 3), October 12, 1979.

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• All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she'll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• [Stephanie] 'You see, Mrs. Mayer was going on about George's lodge, and how he wanted to be buried with his ring, and so Grandma had to check the ring out, and in the process broke off one of George's fingers. Turns out the finger was wax. Somehow Kenny got into the mortuary this morning, left Spiro a note, and chopped off George's finger. And then while I was at the mall tonight with Mary Lou, Kenny threatened me in the shoe department. That must have been when he put the finger in my pocket.' [Morelli] 'Have you been drinking?

  Janet Evanovich

  Morning, Drinking, Grandma

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• Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

  Sarah Vowell

  Nice, Slave, Skis

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

  James MacArthur

  Agriculture, Colorado, Skis

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• Heed not the night;
  A summer lodge amid the wild is mine,
  'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree,
  'Tis mantled by the vine.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Night, June

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Strange Lady”

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