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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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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.
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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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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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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws but to break up both, and make new ones.
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My God! My God! What will the country say?
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