Abraham Lincoln

(39 votes)   If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

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(39 votes)   Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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(39 votes)   No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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(39 votes)   Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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(39 votes)   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.

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(39 votes)   The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

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(38 votes)   Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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(38 votes)   I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

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(38 votes)   I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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(37 votes)   Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

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(37 votes)   Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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(36 votes)   Some day I shall be President.

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(36 votes)   Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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(36 votes)   When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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(35 votes)   I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

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