Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln. Show all posts
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Nearly all men can stand adversity

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Quotation By Abraham Lincoln

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And in the end it's not the years

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Quotation By Abraham Lincoln

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Character is like a tree and reputation like shadow

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."


Quotation By Abraham Lincoln

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All my life I have tried to pluck athistle

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."


Quotation By Abraham Lincoln

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Prohibition will work great injury

"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation,

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If you would win a man to your cause

"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause."

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I have no purpose to introduce political and social

"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgement, will probably for ever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality;

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