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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

Free, Until, Angel

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Last, Eat, Hoping

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Enemy, Friend

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

Self, Victory, Desires

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Liberty, Same, While

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.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, Place, Proud

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Eric Hoffer

Trust, Someone, Feeling

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

Wrong, While, Stand

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

Strong, Anyone, Hear

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

Fighting, Act, Hear

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Mother, Fool, Woman

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

Love, Money, God

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Youth, Hold, Corrupt

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Thinking, Reason

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln

Young, Himself, Rise

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Good, Deep, Book

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Trying, Away

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Best, Keep

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Audrey Hepburn

Person, Others, Tell

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper

Age, Year, Value

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips

Work, Night, Forgive

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian

Life, Friendship, Good

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

Knowing, Drinking, Meeting

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
Milton Berle

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

War, Fails, Prisoner

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sorry, Angry, Nothing

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde

Friends, Excellent, None

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Cannot

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