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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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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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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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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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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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
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When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.
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It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.
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