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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember
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I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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I am not an accomplished lawyer.
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Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].
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Bad promises are better broken than kept.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
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The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.
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We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
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And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.
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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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