I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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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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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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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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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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