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He had none of that grace which turns an enemy to a friend by healing the wounds which have been unjustly inflicted.
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Blaine critiques a person's inability to reconcile with enemies, emphasizing the importance of forgiveness in leadership.
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An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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