Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLNBe sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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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.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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All I have learned, I learned from books.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
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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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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.
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Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.
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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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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.
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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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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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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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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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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.
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