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Man Quotes by Robert E. Lee
- A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
- I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see…
- The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can…
- You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
- There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.
- Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold…
- General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
- Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place.…
- I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
- The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is…
- The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
- A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
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