My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and… - Joshua Chamberlain
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and…
- Joshua Chamberlain
There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor a… - Joshua Chamberlain
There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor a…
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. - Joshua Chamberlain
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.
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gath… - Joshua Chamberlain
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gath…
It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantag… - Joshua Chamberlain
It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantag…
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground… - Joshua Chamberlain
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground…
But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power. - Joshua Chamberlain
But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea. - Joshua Chamberlain
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. - Joshua Chamberlain
We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
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