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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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Be excellent and party on dudes.
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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
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I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.
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My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
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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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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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