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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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 should be on the Lords side.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.