Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I will study and prepare and perhaps my chance will come.
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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
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I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
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