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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?Abraham Lincoln
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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 heavens and say there is no God.Abraham Lincoln
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.Abraham Lincoln
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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
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Whatever you are, be a good one.Abraham Lincoln
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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.Abraham Lincoln
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Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.Abraham Lincoln
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham Lincoln
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.Abraham Lincoln
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In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.Abraham Lincoln
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Achievement has no colorAbraham Lincoln
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Fourscore 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
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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.Abraham Lincoln
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.Abraham Lincoln
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.Abraham Lincoln
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.Abraham Lincoln
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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.Abraham Lincoln
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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], 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. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.Abraham Lincoln
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I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No–when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.Abraham Lincoln