The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNI care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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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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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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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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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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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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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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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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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way.
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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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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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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 don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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