It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
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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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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do 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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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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 have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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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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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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Achievement has no color.
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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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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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