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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

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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 President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - He is a very common-looking man. The President replied: - The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
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I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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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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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
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Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.
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Killing the dog does not cure the bite.
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Lincoln called laughter the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.
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I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.
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When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
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