Abraham Lincoln

(302 votes)   Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(269 votes)   A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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(235 votes)   It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool...

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(234 votes)   To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(231 votes)   People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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(224 votes)   Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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(221 votes)   Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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(220 votes)   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. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(214 votes)   Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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(209 votes)   Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -

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(205 votes)   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.

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(198 votes)   I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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(185 votes)   Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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(173 votes)   I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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(173 votes)   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, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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