Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNIt often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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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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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
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Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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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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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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