Abraham Lincoln – ‘I could not have slept tonig…
‘I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. (reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)’
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘I could as easily bail out t…
‘I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln by General James B. Fry.Allen Thorndike Rice Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln chapter 22 p. 393 (1886). This supposedly had been part of Lincolns response to a young volunteer soldier [...]
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘You cannot escape the respon…
‘You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.’
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘The way for a young man to r…
‘The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.’
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘My father taught me to work;…
‘My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.’
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘Moral principle is a looser …
‘Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.’
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘Quarrel not at all. No man r…
‘Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences including the vitiation of his temper and loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser [...]
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘How many legs does a dog hav…
‘How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesnt make it a leg.’
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘To ease anothers heartache i…
‘To ease anothers heartache is to forget ones own.’
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Abraham Lincoln – ‘When you have got an elephan…
‘When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.’