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A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

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if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.

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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

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Towering genius distains a beaten path.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

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What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

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Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

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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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Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

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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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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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