I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNTo ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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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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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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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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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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