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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
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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It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.
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The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
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Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.
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We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.
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Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
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He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.
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Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
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Friends, I agree with you in Providence but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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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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Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.
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Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals but I do think I will not.
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I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.
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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
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