"Great" Touching quotes by Abraham Lincoln

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
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“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”
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“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
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“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
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“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
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“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”
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“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
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“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
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“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
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“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
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“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
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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.”
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“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
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“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
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“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
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“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
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“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.”
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
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“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
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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.”
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“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
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“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
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“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
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“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.”
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“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
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“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
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“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
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“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
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“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
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“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
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“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
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“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.”
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“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
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“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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“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.”
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“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
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“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.”
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“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
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“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
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“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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