"Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most."
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"You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough."
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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"Behind the cloud the sun is still shining."
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"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
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"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free."
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"Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica."
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
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"We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
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"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
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"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
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"These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have."
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"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
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"If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts"
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"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
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"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
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"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."
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