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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.
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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Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.
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Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
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Teach hope to all, despair to none.
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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.
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Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution and that, as such, I am responsible to them.
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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
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I am nothing, truth is everything.
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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
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I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.
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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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