Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Humble Quotes, Pairs Quotes

A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble.

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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

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you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

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I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

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Violence begins where knowledge ends.

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To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

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Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

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I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

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

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We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

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While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

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The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.

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

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