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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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Robert Edward Lee
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Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
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I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations
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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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Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
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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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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 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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It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
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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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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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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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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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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 nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
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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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You cannot barter manhood for peace.
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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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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
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The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
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