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Robert E. Lee
Age: 63 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 19
Died: 1870
Died: October 12
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He has lost his left arm, but I my right.
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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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We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.
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Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
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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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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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There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.
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No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in perhaps expecting too much of its prowess and valor... could I have foreseen that the attack on the last day would fail, I should certainly have tried some other course... but I do not know what better course I could have pursued.
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We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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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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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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