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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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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Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.
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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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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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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
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Traveler is my only companion I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.
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Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.
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There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
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All this has been my fault.
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