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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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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 am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
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Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.
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Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.
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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
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Cling to liberty and right battle fro them leed for them die for them, if need be and have confidence in God.
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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