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Robert E. Lee
Age: 63 †
Born: 1807
Born: January 19
Died: 1870
Died: October 12
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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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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
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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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In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
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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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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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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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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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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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My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
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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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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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A land without memories is a people without liberty.
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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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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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We must forgive our enemies.
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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