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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.
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I was raised to farm work.
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This is a world of compensations and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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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.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
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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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My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
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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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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
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Public opinion in this country is everything.
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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
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In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
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