If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied
American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else
We have been created to rely on one another. If a stone is removed from a wall, as if to demonstrate the risk of that wall’s collapsing, and if one of us withdraws, we are left face to face with the danger if its collapse.
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born
Your souls are precious, and can only be equal to the price of paradise. Therefore, sell them only at that price.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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