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Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

Abraham Lincoln

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
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
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Books Man Originality Unique
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Government Wage
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
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Experience Folks Vice Virtue
It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
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Myself People Secret
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.
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Bound Honesty Light Success Truth Win
A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
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Fault Fortune Melancholy Misfortune Observed Tendency
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
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
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’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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Believe Friendship Heart Success
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Destroy Freedom Lose Ourself War
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Destination Hang Inspirational One Liner Rope Travel
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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Alone Claim Feeling God Man Worth

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

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