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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
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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Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more you should never wish to do less.
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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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Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
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Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.
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The devil's name is dullness.
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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
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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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If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a comfort for infidels, jubilant joys to the devil, and an offense to God.
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Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
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What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.
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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
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