Carpe Diem! 1853- van Gogh born. 1867– with the help of Cassius Clay Russia sold Alaska to Abraham Lincoln: "Cassius Clay: one of deadliest men ever"?
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3/30/1867 – with the assistance of Cassius Clay, Russia sells Alaska to the US.
“You allow four millions of men in the South, who are your natural allies, to cut your own throats, because you can not lay aside a sickly prejudice….. You must give to every man the same liberty you desire for yourself.”
– Cassius M. Clay, appointed by Abraham Lincoln as ambassador to Russia, and “one of the deadliest men who ever lived.”
3/30/1853 – Birthday of Vincent van Gogh, who wrote:
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.