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A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

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Richard Brookhiser Communication Curiosity Illustration Inspiration Leadership Persuasion

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

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Richard Brookhiser Growth Idealism Leadership Optimism Risk Taking

The towering genius is not apolitical.

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Richard Brookhiser Influence Leadership Vision

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

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Richard Brookhiser Leadership Motivation Openness

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

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Richard Brookhiser Charisma Friendship Imagery Leadership

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

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Richard Brookhiser History Inspiration Reading

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

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Richard Brookhiser Calling Passion Vocation

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

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Richard Brookhiser Creativity Depression Emotion Reading

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

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Richard Brookhiser Bible Communication Inspiration Language Literature Word Of God

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, takes them unawares. The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, takes them unawares. The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

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Richard Brookhiser Depression Emotion Maturation

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

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Richard Brookhiser Charisma Communication Discipleship Persuade Prayer Preaching

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

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Richard Brookhiser Compassion Despondency Emotion Empathy Perspective

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

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Richard Brookhiser Calling Focus Job Stewardship Vocation

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

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Richard Brookhiser Culture Self Sacrifice

Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.

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Richard Brookhiser Culture Legacy Parenthood

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

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Richard Brookhiser Honesty Humility Rapport

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

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Richard Brookhiser Attention Communication Distraction Focus

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

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Richard Brookhiser Communication Influence Pure Pressure Rhetoric

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

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Richard Brookhiser Communication Distraction Rhetoric

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

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Richard Brookhiser Determination Perseverance Stubbornness

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

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Richard Brookhiser Adversity Challenge Difficulty Discipleship

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

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Richard Brookhiser Habits Ideas Prescient

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

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Richard Brookhiser Community Discipleship Mentoring

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

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Richard Brookhiser Discipleship Friendship Mentoring Reading

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

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Richard Brookhiser Discipleship Mentoring Parenthood

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

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Richard Brookhiser Discipleship Distraction Romanticism

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

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Richard Brookhiser Curiosity Openness Reading

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

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Richard Brookhiser Curiosity Listening Openness

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

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Richard Brookhiser Empathy Manipulation Motivation Rhetoric

Dominance can be a tempration to division. There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

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Richard Brookhiser Arrogance Envy
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