James A. Garfield Quotes About Glory
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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
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James A. Garfield
- Born: November 19, 1831
- Died: September 19, 1881
- Occupation: 20th U.S. President
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