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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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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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My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
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I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
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When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
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Human-nature will not change.
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.
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