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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

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I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

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I was raised to farm work.

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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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By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all.

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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

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Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

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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.

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He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

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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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War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

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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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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

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Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

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