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Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

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

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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

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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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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

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

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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

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Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

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I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

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In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

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He who represents himself has a fool for a client

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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

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Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

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