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

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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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
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Towering genius distains a beaten path.
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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
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I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
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I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
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His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
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If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
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