A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNMy father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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 great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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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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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
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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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