Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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Achievement has no color.
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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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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
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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.
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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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.
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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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Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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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 best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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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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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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