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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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We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

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Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

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I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

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When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

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The Almighty has His own purposes.

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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

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No man ever got lost on a straight road.

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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

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Public opinion in this country is everything.

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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

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Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

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If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

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Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

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You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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