The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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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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 don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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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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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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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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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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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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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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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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