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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

~ Abraham Lincoln

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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

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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Advice Future Life Self Determination

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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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

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Perseverance Success

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

Abraham Lincoln Honesty Inspirational Trust

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Dissent Inspirational Moral Courage Public Opinion Religion

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Political Parties Politics Religion

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Cats Humor

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

Abraham Lincoln Honesty Honor Integrity Moral Courage Obligation Truth

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln God Love Peace War

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Mother Wisdom

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Ignorance Knowledge Remaining Silent Wisdom

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Attributed No Source Happiness

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

Abraham Lincoln Bible Faith Happiness

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Hope Laugh

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

~ Abraham Lincoln

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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

Abraham Lincoln Faith Humility Prayer Surrender

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

Abraham Lincoln Faith Self Worth Serenity

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Communication Space Time Writing

Writing is the great invention of the world.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Inspirational Us Presidents Writing Writing Life

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Inspiration Moral Courage Right Right And Wrong

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Religion

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

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Religion

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

Abraham Lincoln Frienship Success

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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All I have learned, I learned from books.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Books Education Lifelong Learning Lincoln Reading Self Education

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Education Learning School

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor; – let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; – let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; – let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.While ever a state of feeling, such as this, shall universally, or even, very generally prevail throughout the nation, vain will be every effort, and fruitless every attempt, to subvert our national freedom.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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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

Abraham Lincoln Comfort Consolation Life Lessons Sorrow

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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