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You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution
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 slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
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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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Your rights end where my nose begins.
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Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
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Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
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Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
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I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
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My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
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That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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