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When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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[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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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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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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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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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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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 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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