North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.
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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
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The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
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Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.
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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
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TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
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But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
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The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
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You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
