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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNYou have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
More Abraham Lincoln Quotes
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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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 laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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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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I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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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 like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
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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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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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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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