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The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

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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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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I think I stand where that man stands.
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
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I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
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One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.
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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
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