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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.
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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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS
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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.
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Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.
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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
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I have a congenital aversion to failure.
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
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As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.
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Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
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The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
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