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 LINCOLNThe philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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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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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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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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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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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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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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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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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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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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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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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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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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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 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 look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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