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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

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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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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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Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure with him it has been one of splendid success.
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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.
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Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm
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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!
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The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
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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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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
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Anxiety beclouds the future.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
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I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.
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