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The devil's name is dullness.

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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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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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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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
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Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.
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He has lost his left arm, but I my right.
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All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
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Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.
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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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I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.
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Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
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I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
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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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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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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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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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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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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers
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