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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 must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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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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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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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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