I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln
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More Quotes By Abraham Lincoln
  1. Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  2. 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.

  3. The best way to predict your future is to create it.

  4. The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

  5. Whatever you are, be a good one.

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