Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

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I defeat my enemies by turning them into friends.

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Most people are only as happy as they think they are.

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it's just purgatory.

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He was unsurpassed in the art of cramming the maximum number of words into the smallest of ideas.

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The possibility that we may suffer defeat in battle should not prevent us from fighting for something we believe to be just.

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Let us believe that might is on the side of truth, and let this belief help us to fulfill our duty as we understand it.

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If he had known that such a pompous funeral awaited him, he would have died long ago.

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A ballot is stronger than a bullet.

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Books are needed to remind man that his original ideas are not so new.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. This is my religion.

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The hypocrite: the man who killed his parents and pleads for leniency, citing the fact that he is an orphan.

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Character is like a tree, and reputation is its shadow. We take care of the shadow, but in fact we have to think about the tree.

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Fraud and flattery are blood relatives.

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A sheep and a wolf understand the word "freedom" differently, this is the essence of the misunderstandings that dominate human society.

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We cannot help people by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

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You can fool some people all the time, you can fool everyone for a while, but you can't fool everyone all the time.

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I don't care what is said about me behind my back as long as the truth is being told.

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The path was narrow and slippery. One of my legs slipped out from under me and pushed the other off the road. But I got back on my feet and said to myself: "I just slipped - I didn't fall..." We all have a sense of responsibility that we must continue, we all have a duty to fight.

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Someone impatiently watches their pear tree day by day to see if the fruit is ripe. If you tried to force this process, you would destroy the fruit as well as the tree. But if you wait patiently, the ripe fruit will fall into your lap.

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be hostile, there may be tensions between us, but love can never break. The secret strings of memory vibrate when our better nature gently touches them.

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There is no glory in killing, no pride in destruction. There is nothing good in war. Except for the ending.

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Most people are only as happy as they make themselves.

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Character is like a tree, and fame is like its shadow. We think of the shade, but the tree is the essence.

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Maybe I won't destroy my enemies if I make them my friends?

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Your own determination to succeed is more important than anything else.

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I move slowly, but never backwards.

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Don't criticize others; they are exactly who we would be in similar circumstances.

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The main factor in whether we accept something or not is not whether there is evil in that thing, but whether there is more evil than good in it. There are very few things that are completely evil or completely good.

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I've gotten to the point now that I never think about marriage again, and the reason for that is that I'd never be satisfied with someone who's crazy enough to get along with me.

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There is an eternal battle between good and evil all over the world. Since the beginning of time, these two principles have been at odds with each other, and they will fight each other forever.

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Ours is a sad world, grief escapes no one; but the most bitter torments are experienced by the youth, because they come upon it unexpectedly.

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Don't let a feeling discourage you, so you can be sure of success in the end.

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I didn't swear to win, just to be true. I swore not to succeed, but to be worthy of the flame that burns inside me.

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You can fool some people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool everyone all the time.

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How many legs does a dog have if its tail is called a leg? Four. Calling his tail his leg won't make it so.

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Those who are persuaded by force do not change their minds.

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No man can be destroyed as long as he maintains his dignity and claims to be related to the mighty God who created him.

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I have fallen to my knees many times because I was convinced that I could not turn anywhere else.

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It's not worth making our mistakes if we don't learn from them.

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If I want to talk to someone, one-third of the time available to me is about myself and what I'm going to say to him - and two-thirds I'm thinking about him and what he's going to say.

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Most people can tolerate bad luck. If you really want to test a person's character, give them power.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not obligated to achieve success, but I am obligated to live worthy of the light within me.

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I have always found grace to be more successful than strict justice.

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I will do everything I can, give my best, and I want to do so until the last moment. If in the end it turns out that I was right, whatever they bring against me, it doesn't matter. If it turns out that I was wrong, even ten angels could swear by how good I was, it doesn't change the point.

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Don't be sad when you are not praised, but strive to be worthy of recognition!

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The task that awaits us is to take on the work left to us with faith, to draw from our glorious dead even greater devotion to the cause for which they sacrificed everything, so that we, the followers of those present here, believe that this nation will restore freedom with the help of God.

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I don't think much of a man who is no wiser today than he was yesterday.

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My real concern is not whether a person fails, but what they do with their failure.

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Give me six hours to cut down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe.