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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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