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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.
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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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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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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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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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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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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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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