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"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."
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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."
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"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"I dote on his very absence."
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"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
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"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"
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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
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"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."
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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
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"I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor."
History
"The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union."
People
"General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance."
Action
"In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction."
Government
"There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy."
Government
"Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive."
Nation
"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."
Absence
"And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began."
Conflict
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
Education
"Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee."
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