A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNCharacter is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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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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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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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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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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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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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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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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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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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 have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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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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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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