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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
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If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.
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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.
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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
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All that harms labor is treason to America.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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If I am killed, I can die by once but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
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You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.
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It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
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