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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.

Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Argue Freedom Hear Personality Slavery Wisdom
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 LINCOLN

Earth God Heaven Life Man Possible
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Help People Permanent Self Love
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Ignorance Man Past Wise
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Experience Folks Vice Virtue
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Clung Life Mother Prayer Remember
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Character Man Men Power
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Believe Dare Duty Faith Understand
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Business Excellence Inspirational Success
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Hate Man Understanding
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Courage Divine Human Principle Rejection
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Art Comfortable Future Greatness Land Live
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Father Life Love One Liner Teaching Work
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Bound Honesty Light Success Truth Win
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

God Life People Truth
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Duty Leadership Loyalty Wrong

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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