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I am nothing, truth is everything.

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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Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
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No man ever got lost on a straight road.
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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.
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[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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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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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope pure slavery has no hope.
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
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