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"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."

"Heaven's currency is friendship."

"Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?"

"Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing."

"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also."

"Not all of those who cry "The poor, the poor!" will enter the kingdom of heaven."
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"We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war."

"Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left."

"Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed."

"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."

"Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place."

"But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action."

"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."

"My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage."
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