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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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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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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.
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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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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
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You know I dislike slavery and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
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Life is hard but so very beautiful
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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
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Care for him who shall have borne the battle
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If you have never failed you have never lived.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
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