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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."
Army
"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."
Life
"We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters."
Wisdom
"This war is not about slavery."
War
"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."
Friendship
"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing."
God
"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."
Integrity
"A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others."
Help
"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."
Education
"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
Trust
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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."
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Personal Development
"I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office."
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Personal Development
"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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Personal Development
"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"
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Personal Development
"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
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Personal Development
"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
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Personal Development
"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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Personal Development
"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."
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"Our higher duty is to fear God."
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"You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
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