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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
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A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.
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What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?
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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
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Shall we stop this bleeding?
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
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I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.
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It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.
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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
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And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.
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Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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