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"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
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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."
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"What a heaven is love! O what a hell!"
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"Heaven's currency is friendship."
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"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
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"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
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"There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell."
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"I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored."
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"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."
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"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land."
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"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."
Man

"We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven."
Heaven

"We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war."
War

"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal."
Life

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

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

"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."
Battle

"The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away."
Enemy

"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."
Writing

"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."
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