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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
16Th U.S. President
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How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object.
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It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
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I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.
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Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed without slavery it could not continue.
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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Lincoln called laughter the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.
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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.
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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
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The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend.
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I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
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