Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNDon’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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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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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
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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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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
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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 cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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