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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNNo matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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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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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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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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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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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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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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You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
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