1. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and i will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
2. God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
3. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
4. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
5. I don't like that man. i must get to know him better.
6. 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.
7. I walk slowly but i never walk backward.
8. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
9. If i were two faced, would i be wearing this one?
10. If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
11. In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. it is the life in your years.
12. Let not him who is 'houseless' pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
13. Marriage is not heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory
14. My great concern isn't whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.
15. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test the character, give him power.
16. A house divided against itself can not stand.
17. As i will not be a slave, so i will not be a master. this express my idea of democracy.
18. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
19. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing
20. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
21. Most folks are as happy as they made up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.
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