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

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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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I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better therefore I blame you for blaming me.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
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I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations and to no one of them, more than to yourself.
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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.
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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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