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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning it is best not to worry about either.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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