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 LINCOLNYou cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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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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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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Achievement has no color.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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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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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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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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I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
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