Abraham Lincoln
United States
12 Feb 1809 // 15 Apr 1865
President
12 Feb 1809 // 15 Apr 1865
President
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly
We should be too big to take offence and too noble to give it
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
God must love the common man, he made so many of them
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt
He who does something at the head of one regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred
Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
I will study and prepare and perhaps my chance will come
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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