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A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . .

Source: Speech, Beverly, Massachusetts, 4 Jul 1835.
-- Edward Everett, (Apr 11 1794-1865), US statesman, orator; He is remembered ironically for delivering the main speech preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863; pres. Harvard U., 1846-49.

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