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If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
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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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich it would do more harm than good.
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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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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Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
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Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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