Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Wish Quotes

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

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The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

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Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

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It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

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I have a congenital aversion to failure.

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My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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Everybody appreciates a compliment.

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Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

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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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Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

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One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

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I am not an accomplished lawyer.

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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

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