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#1

“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: humanity, inspirational, life

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“We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: acknowledgement, honor, virtue

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“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: country-life, human-nature

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#6

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, books

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#7

“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.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: frienship, success

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#8

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique

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#9

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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#10

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, religion

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#11

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: desperation, misattributed, tenacity

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#12

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: entitlement, self-reliance

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#13

“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#14

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: friendship

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#15

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: opportunity, preparation

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#16

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: enterprise, leisure

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#17

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy

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#18

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: benevolence, charity, public-service, volunteerism

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#19

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: democracy, elections, irony

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#20

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, education, lifelong-learning, lincoln, reading, self-education

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#21

“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: bible, faith, happiness

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#22

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: stubbornness, willful-ignorance

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#23

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#24

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#25

“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#26

“Life is hard but so very beautiful”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#27

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

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#28

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

tags: family, happiness, humor

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#29

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
― Walt Whitman

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#30

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: family, readers, reading

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