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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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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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Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing.

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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

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Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

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All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

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Too big to cry too young to laugh.

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My God! My God! What will the country say?

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If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

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You can't help the poor by being one of them.

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the better angels of our nature

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[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

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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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In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

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