The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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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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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
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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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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
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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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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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All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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