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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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Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
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Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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the better angels of our nature
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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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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Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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If you love something, set it free.
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I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.
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So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.
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I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.
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