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Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (1046)

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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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One is a majority if he is right.
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .
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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 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, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.
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All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
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