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the better angels of our nature

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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

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When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

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It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

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I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

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If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

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Care for him who shall have borne the battle

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

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Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

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Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

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