My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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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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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
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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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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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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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