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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time
for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences,
including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction
that I had nowhere else to go
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just
encouragement to industry and enterprise.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Whatever you are, be a good one.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
to know who his grandson will be.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
--Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
--Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
--Abraham Lincoln

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend
is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it,
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note,
nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Address at Gettysburg, (Gettysburg Address) 1863

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just - that all
men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel
there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early
that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

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
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)