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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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: hope, laugh
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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
    “No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: lincoln, mother, wisdom
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, success
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: faith, humility, prayer, surrender
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton
    tags: american-presidents, inaugural-address, us-presidents
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: definitions, tact, wit
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: opportunity, preparation
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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
    “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abraham-lincoln, lying
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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
    “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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    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
    “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
    “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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “All I have learned, I learned from books.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, education, lifelong-learning, lincoln, reading, self-education
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
    “The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: friendship
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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
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: food, food-critics
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “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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    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
    “In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: 1862, bereavement, grieving, inspirational, letter-to-fanny-mccullough, mourning, sorrow
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