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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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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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We hope all danger may be overcome but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.
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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
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I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong as silly and as wise asbad and good.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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