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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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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
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Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.
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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
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I told myself, Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means. So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what demonstrate means, and went back to my law studies.
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God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.
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I am a moderate walker, however I never stroll back.
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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
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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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If you have never failed you have never lived.
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If you love something, set it free.
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
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A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.
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