Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Spring Quotes, Ambition Quotes

It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.

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

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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?

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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

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We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

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In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

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If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

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A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

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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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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

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If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

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