Abraham Lincoln on escape
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln 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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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PericlesPericles Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Bell HooksBell Hooks We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.
Kurt CobainKurt Cobain The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
HeraclitusHeraclitus Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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