When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
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More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
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The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
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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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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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You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
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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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