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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
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Author Profession:
President
Nationality:
American
Born:
February 12
, 1809
Died:
April 15
, 1865
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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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 by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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Men
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Congress
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
Good
Man
Business
You
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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See
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
Happy
Minds
Make
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom
Time
Die
Suicide
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln
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Time
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