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"There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."
"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
"One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war."
"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."
"I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views."
"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'"
"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
"If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife."
"Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40."
"Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope."
"A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
"One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both."
"With malice towards none; with charity for all."
"Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them."
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
"If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss."
"Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward."
"Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice."
"It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
"We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?"