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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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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    “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
    ― Edward J. Stieglitz
    tags: inspirational
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: american-presidents, freedom, slavery, wisdom
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, life, politics, religion, science
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: beauty, photography, portraits
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: belief
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: humor
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
    succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, honor, integrity, moral-courage, obligation, truth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: ambition, bullying, character, moral-courage
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, integrity, lying, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, trust
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: honesty, inspirational, trust
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: incrementalism
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, lying
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: advice, future, life, self-determination
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: planning, preparation
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: procrastination
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: entitlement, inherited-wealth
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: apathy, democracy, elections, voting
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: faith, self-worth, serenity
    296 likes



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