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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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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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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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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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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Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.
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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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All this has been my fault.
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The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
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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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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
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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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