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I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

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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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
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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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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.
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I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
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In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong as silly and as wise asbad and good.
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
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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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I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.
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Never let your correspondence fall behind.
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