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Official White House portrait of James
Garfield
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The world's history is a
divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a
word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there
have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the
Christian philosopher and historian — the humble listener — there has been a
Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to
come.
[The Province of History (c. 1856), Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary
of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 620.]
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James A. Garfield, the
20th President of the United States
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