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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Axe Hours Planning Preparation Spend Tree
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Conflict Inspirational Man Money Politics Republic
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Hate Man Understanding
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Dreamss Flower Hope Inspirational Plant
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Goodness Government Man
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
I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Arise Concern Failure Fall Inspirational
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Achievement Live Man Proud Success
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Believe Friendship Heart Success
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Grandfather Growth Hustle Inspirational
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
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Believe Bible Books God Man Savior
You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Man One Liner Strong Weakness
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 LINCOLN

Chacter Reality Reputation Shadow Tree
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

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