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Every head should be cultivated.
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 am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
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Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.
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You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.
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I say 'try' if we never try, we shall never succeed.
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I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.
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The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure with him it has been one of splendid success.
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Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.
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You know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
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Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.
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It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.
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Others have been made fools of by the girls but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
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A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
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When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
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I am not an accomplished lawyer.
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