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If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.
Category: Alcohol Author: Abraham Lincoln
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Category: America Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Category: Attitude Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Category: Attitude Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Abraham Lincoln
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Category: Cats Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Category: Effort Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Category: Freedom Author: Abraham Lincoln
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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
Category: Friendship Author: Abraham Lincoln
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Category: Government Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Category: Happiness Author: Abraham Lincoln
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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: Abraham Lincoln
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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Category: Honesty Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Category: Human Rights Author: Abraham Lincoln
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Category: Humility Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Category: Integrity Author: Abraham Lincoln
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