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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
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Too big to cry too young to laugh.
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
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Too many piglets not enough tits.
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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
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I want in all cases to do right.
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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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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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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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