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The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
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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I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
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When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.
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The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.
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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
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I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
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A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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