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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
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
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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
    2365 likes

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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
    1352 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful
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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
    1404 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: emnity, understanding-others
    1257 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: belief
    1024 likes

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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
    “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: mothers
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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
    1103 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: appearances, character, simile, substance
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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
    1037 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: lincoln, mother, wisdom
    806 likes

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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
    “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
    573 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, lying
    599 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: animal-rights
    460 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: secrecy
    390 likes

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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
    643 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “All I have learned, I learned from books.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, education, lifelong-learning, lincoln, reading, self-education
    541 likes

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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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: family, individuality, live-in-the-here-and-now, live-in-the-moment, present-moment, self-determination
    269 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: benevolence, charity, public-service, volunteerism
    289 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: magnanimity, noblesse-oblige
    192 likes



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