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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

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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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Property is the fruit of labor property is desirable it is a positive good.
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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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We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.
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The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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No man ever got lost on a straight road.
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
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I am nothing, truth is everything.
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Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
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I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
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I am always for the man who wishes to work.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various leads from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
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I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.
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And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.
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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
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