We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

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I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

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

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I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

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

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Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

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We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

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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.

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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.

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