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No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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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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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.
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To lead, you must touch men's hearts.
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
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I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
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The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
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Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
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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.
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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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Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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