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Joseph Fort Newton Quotes: Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.
         

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.


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Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.





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