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#1

“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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#2

“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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#3

“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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#4

“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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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

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#8

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

tags: desperation, misattributed, tenacity

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#9

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: emnity, understanding-others

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#10

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

tags: belief

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#11

“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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#12

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: definitions, tact, wit

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#13

“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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#14

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: abraham-lincoln, lying

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#15

“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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#16

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”
― William Penn

tags: 1693, criticism, helping-others, misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misquote, volunteerism

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#17

“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

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#18

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: benevolence, charity, generosity, hypocrisy, pets

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#19

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: procrastination

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#20

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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#21

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attractiveness, beauty, humor, life

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#22

“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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#23

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: failure, perseverance

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#24

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

tags: benevolence, charity, public-service, volunteerism

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#25

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: beer, democracy, informed-decisions

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“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

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#27

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

tags: abraham-lincoln, religion

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#28

“Achievement has no color”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: achievement, inspirational, racism

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#29

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: magnanimity, noblesse-oblige

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#30

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: nursing, veterans

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