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I will learn, the opportunity will come.

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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My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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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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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals but I do think I will not.
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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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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.
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In my entire life I have only met four perfect people... and I disliked them all.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
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I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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I told myself, Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means. So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what demonstrate means, and went back to my law studies.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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