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God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
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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You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
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The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.
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The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.
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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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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.
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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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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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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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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
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I will learn, the opportunity will come.
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We can not have free government without elections and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
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Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.
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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.
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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not distinctly and expressly affirmed in it.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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