"The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also."
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"I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.""
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
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"I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready."
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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."
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"When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed."
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"God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches."
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"I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies."
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"Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish."
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"Whatever уоu are, bе а good one."
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"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."
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"I walk slowly, but never backwards."
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"Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money."
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"Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one."
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"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
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"To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization."
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"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."
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"I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."
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"I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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"I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do."
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