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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Education
Freedom
War
Army
Liberty
Standing
Teaching
Safeguard
Than
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Sanctuary
Virtue
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Home
Sanctuary
Virtue
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Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Characteristics
Cowardice
Manners
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And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Grace
Grace Of God
Should
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The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Heart
People
Unions
Union
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Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Pursuit
Lee
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When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Flower
Spring
Sunshine
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I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Life
Oneness
Responsibility
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Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Thankful
Amends
Fervent
Glowing
Suffering
Thanks
Toil
Nation
Sufferings
Survive
Toils
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God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
God
Men
Bless
Blood
Brave
Bravery
Defence
God Bless
Shed
Been
Brave Men
Dearer
Union
Which
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All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Republican
Scripture
Teaching
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When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Mourning
Sorrow
Tears
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I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
War
Ideas
Two
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil, Lay down the wreck of power to rest...
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Soil
Toil
Wrecks
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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.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Conflict
Forever
July
Remembered
Began
Momentous
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Education
Army
Liberty
Wages
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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Athens
Battle
Citizens
Honorable
Law
Appointed
Expense
Manner
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Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Freedom
War
Long
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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Congress
Frenzy
Influence
Lasts
Real
Rebellion
Session
Speech
Authors
Ferocious
Outbreak
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Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Blessed
California
Lying
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In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Break Up
Smile
Atoms
Elements
Hostile
Movement
Mutual
Repulsion
Roman Empire
Original
Breaking
Breaking Up
Empire
Italy
Resolved
Roman
Whose
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That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Absence
Battle
Doubt
Impossible
Precise
Scene
Apparent
Encounter
Foretell
Fought
Lee
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Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Blessing
Integrity
May
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General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Action
Disposition
Engaged
Force
Made
Wounded
Advance
General
Greatly
Head
Himself
Immediately
Outnumbered
Scarcely
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What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Giving
Hair
Self
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In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Government
Cities
Conformity
Determined
Invasion
Last Summer
Offensive
Summer
Washington
Direction
Disastrous
Notwithstanding
Resume
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The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Faith
Spiritual
Support
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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Admiration
Dawn
Grateful
Gratitude
Homage
Honor
Memories
Paid
Present Time
Sacrifice
Time History Men
Justly
Memory
Nobly
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Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Truth
Discovery
Philosophy
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We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Men
Blessed
Challenges
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This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Blessing
Children
Father
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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 the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Men
Land
Law
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We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Art
Spiritual
Spring
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An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Character
Illustration
Memories
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Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Horse
Military
Order
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A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Men
Character
Country
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Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Character
Country
Thinking
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Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Home
Men
Country
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians, against their will, under color of law, are driven from their homes into the wilderness. You cannot explain it; you cannot reason it away. . . . Our friends will view this measure with sorrow, and our enemies alone with joy. And we ourselves, Sir, when the interests and passions of the day are past, shall look back upon it, I fear, with self-reproach, and a regret as bitter as unavailing.
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Country
Passion
Regret
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Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?
Edward Everett / Former U.s. Senator
Intelligence
Ocean
Travel
Heart
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