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If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.
Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 April 1864 -
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
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If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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