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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNThose who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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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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My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do 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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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
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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 good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
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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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