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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

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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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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
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I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
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In my entire life I have only met four perfect people... and I disliked them all.
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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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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.
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I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.
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I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
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