Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNBe with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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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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You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
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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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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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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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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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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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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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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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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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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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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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Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.
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You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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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 not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
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