What is the meaning of the maxim: "Good iron is not wasted in making nails nor good men in making soldiers
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That war is a worthy calling of good men.
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It's a statement of encouragement.  He's saying that if something is in your way, you shouldn't let it get the best of you.  Obstacles exist to overcome them and find ways around them.  Obstacles give a person something to struggle over, and when they come out on the other side or break down those obstacles, that person is stronger for it.  If you surrender to an obstacle, you can't go any further.  To surrender to an obstacle is to give up on where you are going and to pass down an opportunity to struggle through a hard situation and better yourself.  Biblically speaking, God sometimes allows us to go through hardships because He knows it will make us stronger on the other side of the obstacle.  There are plenty examples of this with Job, King David, and all of the apostles to name a few.  Good luck with your essay!
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, America's first Republican president.\n\n\nFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. \n\nNow we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. \n\nBut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, shall not perish from the earth.
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"there are none righteous; no, not one"\n"all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"\n"I am the way, the truth, the life.  no man comes to the Father except through me."
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lol that would negate the definition of the word. To will something is to make an active choice. If you're choosing, you're not a slave. Slaves have choices made for them. I believe that humans are free to choose - it's just that they are too ready to give up that freedom. And as Henry Ford said, "whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're usually right"
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Context as follows: giving up liberty only gives you tyranny it doesn't give you safety.  Benjamin Franklin and his fellow British citizens gave up their liberty to a king so that he would protect them but he really only repressed them, thus the revolution was born.
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The saying comes from the Book of Common Prayer used in many Anglican churches.  It actually referrers to the passage in the Christian bible in Genesis 3:19: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.\n\nIt refers to the mortality of man and the fact that our body will decay and return to the earth we were formed from.
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"practce makes a man perfect" its quoted from Bacon.it means practice is the only thing which make us perfect . That means life is the practicing realm .from birth itself we r practicing 4 doing some thing
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Metal having iron in small amounts is known as a ferrous metal. It can be an imourity as well. And those which dont are non ferrous metals
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It is also not god's will for you to eat shrimp, wear clothes made of 2 kinds of thread or for men to shave their beards.  In the same chapter where it describes "man laying with men as with women" it also outlines how a daughter may be sold into slavery.\n\nIf you are going to hold these beliefs please be consistent and don't pawn off your bigotry as the "will of god"
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To paraphrase a great Man, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone…" There were no stones thrown that day. I am sure there would be none thrown by Democrats or Republicans today either. “No, there is none perfect not one…”
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It means they have enough men power to keep fighting the war and they will keep sending them into battle until the enemy is completely defeated. I think the sentence is pretty much self explanatory...
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Semper Fie  = always faithful.  To be  honorable to one's ideals and promises; true to a vow taken, a promise given, and to commitments made.\n\nTheologically  - not quite sure what you mean by that.
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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. \n\nThis is one of my favorite promises, one of the 10 Commandments.  It is the only one of the 10 commandments which offers a promise of long life if you but honor your father and mother.
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Just like Orwell wrote;\n\nWAR IS PEACE\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH\n\nBig Brother is alive and watching you.\n(and I don't mean that bloke in the clouds, bloody Christians).
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I like these two together, \n\n"If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories. "\n\n"One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful. "
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You have to "get while the gettin's good".  Take advantage of your opportunities while you still have the chance or your chance may disappear.\nThis refers to old-time blacksmiths  heating iron until it was red hot, then hammering it into shape.  If they didn't work fast, the iron would cool and they would not be able to work it.