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" Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. "
Abraham Lincoln
Worry
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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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" Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before. "
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" If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? "
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" Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. "
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" If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied. "
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" My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. "
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" Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. "
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" I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. "
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" A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. "
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" Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. "
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" 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. "
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" You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time. "
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" Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation. "
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" As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. "
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" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "
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" Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. "
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" The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied. "
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" We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. "
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