Abraham+Lincoln

=Abraham Lincoln=

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 * Quotes**

1. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

2. A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

3. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

4. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

5. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

6. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

7. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

8. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

9. Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

10. Everybody likes a compliment.

11. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

12. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

13. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

14. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

15. I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

16. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

17. I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

18. I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

19. Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

20. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

21. Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

22. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

23. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

24. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

25. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

26. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

27. The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

28. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

29. We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

30. Whatever you are, be a good one.

31. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

32. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

33. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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