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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I told myself, Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means. So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what demonstrate means, and went back to my law studies.
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The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
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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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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
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Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)
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Too big to cry too young to laugh.
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It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.
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Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
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I never tire of reading Tom Paine.
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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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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
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