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"47 Abraham Lincoln Quotes & Sayings

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Born. 12 February, 1809 Died. 15 April, 1865 | President |
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on Gods side, for God is always right.
Greatest Whether Concern God
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Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Most Folk Happy Mind
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Man Good Enough Memory
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

Human Action Extend Nature
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Love is the chain to lock a child to its parent.
Love Chain Child Parent
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Common People Best Reason
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Right Criticize Heart Help
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Subject Dictate System Engage
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I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Rather Silence Wise Tongue
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I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

Like Man Know Better
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Reach End Rope Hang
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Purpose Feel Power Regret
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And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

End Year Life Count
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Escape Tomorrow You Evading
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Better Silent Fool Doubt
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Complain Thorn Can Rose
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If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

Can Die Once Over
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Can Stand Test Power
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other thing.

Bear Mind Success Important
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Success Today Friend Heart
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Come Wait Left Hustle
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Fine Future Small Piece
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Human Nature Change Future
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Best Way Predict Future
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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

Will What Arrest Decree
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Claim Confess Have Plain
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Aid Save Mature Severe
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.

Myself Conclude Best Story
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Platform Best Bargain Have
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

World Slave Freedom Deserve
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Freedom Preserve Save Earth
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You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Think Wrong Between While
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The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God’s green earth.

Victory Complete Proclaim God
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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

Leave Lamp Burn Equal
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No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other’s consent. I say this is the leading principle–the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

Man Good Enough Sheet
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the sky and say there is no God.

Might Possible Could Look
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It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Seem Strange Dare Judge
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Ability Man Exist Have
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for h

Toward Charity Battle Cherish
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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the w

Art Creation World Conduct
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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.

Always Concern Right Side
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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. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.

Regard Book Best Gift
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The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party – and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

Party Claim Wrong Effect
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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Poor Who Man Mother
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Faith End Duty Right
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Good When Feel Religion
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes & Sayings