Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThose who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
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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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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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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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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
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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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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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