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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
Robert E. Lee
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Robert E. Lee
Age: 63 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 19
Died: 1870
Died: October 12
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Robert Edward Lee
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The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.
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What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
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Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
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For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
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You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
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We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.
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