Tag: knowledge
group name: quotesquotes
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March 23, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
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March 17, 2008 07:55 AM EDT --
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the . . . more
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April 15, 2008 08:36 AM EDT --
"Crook, do you know I believe there are men who want to take my life? And I have no doubt they will do it.....I know no one could do it and escape alive. But if it is to be done, it is impossible . . . more
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February 29, 2008 08:20 AM EST --
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."
Abraham Lincoln
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March 30, 2008 09:01 AM EDT --
"I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself."
Abraham Lincoln, September . . . more
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March 01, 2008 09:09 AM EST --
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
NOTE: The Abraham Lincoln Quote of the Day will be taking a brief hiatus as I will be . . . more
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March 16, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
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March 28, 2008 08:36 AM EDT --
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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March 31, 2008 07:15 AM EDT --
The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. . . . more
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April 01, 2008 09:52 AM EDT --
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
An appropriate quote for April Fools Day! . . . more
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April 02, 2008 07:01 AM EDT --
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln
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April 03, 2008 07:20 AM EDT --
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep . . . more
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April 05, 2008 08:05 AM EDT --
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln
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April 06, 2008 08:52 AM EDT --
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.
Abraham Lincoln, September 1862, Meditation on . . . more
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April 07, 2008 07:37 AM EDT --
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln understood that a great leader must listen to varying viewpoints around him, but in the . . . more
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April 11, 2008 07:26 AM EDT --
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln, conversation with Judge E.R. Hoar and Richard H. Dana in November 1864 (immediately after . . . more
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April 13, 2008 09:09 AM EDT --
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
This came from a dream that Lincoln shared. In his dream he is surrounded by plain-looking . . . more
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April 18, 2008 07:19 AM EDT --
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance . . . more
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May 03, 2008 09:00 AM EDT --
Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it.
Abraham Lincoln, July 10, 1858 Speech at Chicago
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May 11, 2008 09:04 AM EDT --
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
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