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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.
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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A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
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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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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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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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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
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As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.
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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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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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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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Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
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Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
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Every student must be a gentleman.
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It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
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The devil's name is dullness.
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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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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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