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ABRAHAM LINCOLNIf this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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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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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
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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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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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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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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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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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I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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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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