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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

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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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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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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

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Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

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Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.

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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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Never regret what you don't write.

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Never regret what you don't write.

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I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

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I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Abraham Lincoln16th U. S. President
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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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Whatever you are, be a good one.

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

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And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

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