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Quotes of Abraham Lincoln [30]
- Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.ey make up their minds to be.
- Whatever you are be a good one.
- Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
- Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
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