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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Argue Freedom Hear Personality Slavery Wisdom
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Love Marriage Myself Satisfaction Thinking
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Goodness Government Man
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Education Generation Government Learning Philosophy School
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Believe Friendship Heart Success
You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.
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Man One Liner Strong Weakness
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Democracy Ideas Master Slave
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Believe Failure Inspirational Struggle
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Bad Finding Life One Liner People
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
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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Fool Honesty People Time
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Government Wage
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Inspirational Mind Perseverance Resolution Success
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Care Cat Charity Dog Man Religion
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 LINCOLN

Hear People Ready Talking Thinking Time

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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