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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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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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There is scarcely anything that is right that we cannot hope to accomplish by labor and perseverance. But the first must be earnest and the second unremitting.
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Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.
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I will attack no matter what and win the war!
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Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.
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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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The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
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Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.
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History teaches us hope.
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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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Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.
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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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General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
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The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.
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Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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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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We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
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