About Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States who led the nation through the Civil War. (1809-1865)

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.Letter to Isham Reavis (1855)
• Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives (1848)
• The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.Letter to William H. Herndon (1848)
• Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.Notes for a Law Lecture (c. 1850)
• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser, in fees, expenses, and waste of time.Notes for a Law Lecture (c. 1850)
• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.Annual Message to Congress (1862)

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• For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.Carl Sagan
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.Galileo Galilei
• Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.Leonardo da Vinci
• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.Benjamin Franklin
• Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.Aristotle
• When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.Aristotle

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