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 LINCOLNAnybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
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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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Life is hard but so very beautiful
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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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The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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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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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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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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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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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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