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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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 highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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I am nothing, truth is everything.
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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
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Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
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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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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.
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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
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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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There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.
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Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
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...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
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Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her
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