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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.
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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I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Anxiety beclouds the future.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
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Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
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The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
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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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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
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