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

Joshua Chamberlain
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  1. If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. - Leo Tolstoy

  2. Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein. - Kahlil Gibran

  3. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. - Victor Hugo

  4. This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. - Samuel Johnson

  5. My words are within the rim But No rim can bind my Thought. - Kartik Mehta

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  1. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the...

  2. We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

  3. This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

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

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

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