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 LINCOLNForce is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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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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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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