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Abraham Lincoln

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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”— Abraham 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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“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”— Abraham Lincoln