Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNWe should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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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.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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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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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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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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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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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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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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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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Achievement has no color.
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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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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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