What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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About Albert Pike
Albert Pike was a 19th-century American author, freemason, and soldier. 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. He had previously served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Alone — Solitude, independence, and the experience of being alone