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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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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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Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.
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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
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When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
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Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
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I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.
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I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.
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To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, [] and to preach there-from that, In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread, to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.
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I am nothing, truth is everything.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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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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I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
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If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.
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