"And now the momentous day, a day to……" — Edward Everett
"And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began."
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Edward Everett
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24 Quotes by Edward Everett
Edward Everett has 24 quotes on this site.
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.
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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the…
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I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . .…
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And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
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I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion,…
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In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862,…
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In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original…
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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as…
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The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by…
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Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
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General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions…
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
— Unknown Author
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and…
— Hugh Miller
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
— Thomas Carlyle
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire…
— Tony Snow
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as…
— Pope Leo X
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us…
— Charles Shaar Murray
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
— James Hutton
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Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
— Martin Fowler
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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul…
— Vito Fossella
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