There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThe man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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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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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
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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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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
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Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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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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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
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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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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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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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