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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.
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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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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No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
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Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!
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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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All this has been my fault.
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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
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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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We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.
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