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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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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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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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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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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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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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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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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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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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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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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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