Feel Quotes

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Abraham Lincoln

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I am rather inclined to silence.

Abraham Lincoln

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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Abraham Lincoln

Tags: Patriotism Than Kind

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Abraham Lincoln

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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Abraham Lincoln

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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Abraham Lincoln

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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Abraham Lincoln

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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Abraham Lincoln

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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln

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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Abraham Lincoln

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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

Abraham Lincoln

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

Tags: Truth Out Only

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Abraham Lincoln

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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Abraham Lincoln

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

Abraham Lincoln

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We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

Abraham Lincoln

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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

Abraham Lincoln

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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.

Abraham Lincoln

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Abraham Lincoln

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Abraham Lincoln

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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

Abraham Lincoln

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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.

Abraham Lincoln

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Abraham Lincoln

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Abraham Lincoln

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