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Postmaster Inspirational Quotes (1081)

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And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.
Abraham Lincoln
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
Ralph Allen
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
Abraham Lincoln
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
Abraham Lincoln
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
Abraham Lincoln
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It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
Flora Thompson
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
Abraham Lincoln
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No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.
Abraham Lincoln
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I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Abraham Lincoln
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With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.
Louise Imogen Guiney
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
Abraham Lincoln
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The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
Abraham Lincoln
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
Abraham Lincoln
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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
Abraham Lincoln
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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
Abraham Lincoln
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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham Lincoln
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