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"Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."
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"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
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"Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington."
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"Let our children be taught love love love."
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"Train our children to love God."
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"Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia."
Man
"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers."
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"Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood."
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"Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him."
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