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 LINCOLNDo I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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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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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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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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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Achievement has no color.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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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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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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