Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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Abraham Lincoln

Political Leader

Hopeful

“We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.”

War Religious Errors

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Abraham Lincoln

Political Leader

Philosophical

“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

Men Long 4th Of July

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Grateful

“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”

Time Lost

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Grateful

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

Character Motivational

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Spiritual

“Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.”

Thinking Self Esteem Self Respect

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Grateful

“the better angels of our nature”

Angel Civil War

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Spiritual

“I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.”

Sides Praying

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Courageous

“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.”

Wisdom Time Change

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Rebellious

“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.”

Motivational Ambition Honesty

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Optimistic

“Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.”

Mean Giving Religious

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Confident

“You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself”

Lying Fool Encouragement

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Angry

“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

Two Differences White

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