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Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

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There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

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You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

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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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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

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It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

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By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

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Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

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Everybody likes a compliment.

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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

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If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

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The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

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