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Every student must be a gentleman.

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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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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There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.
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Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
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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 have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.
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You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
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You cannot barter manhood for peace.
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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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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 cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.
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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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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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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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Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.
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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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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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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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It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
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To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
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My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.
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