Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNMy 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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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
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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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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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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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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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