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Writing is the great invention of the world.
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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To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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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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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure with him it has been one of splendid success.
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
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As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
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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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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
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A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
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