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The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
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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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.
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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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As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes I cannot see you.
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Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.
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My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age and he grew up, literally without education.
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The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
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If I am killed, I can die by once but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
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I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.
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In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
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