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With the catching ends the pleasures of the chase.

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least pa...more

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My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly...more

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What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

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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 hea...more

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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. God ...more

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject ...more

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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My dear Sir.Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very early day, visit Rock-Island, to deliver a lectur...more

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The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...This is a world o...more