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I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has, and has alr...

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I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize th...

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I believe you to be a brave and a skillful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in ...

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How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world. If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose t...

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Every head should be cultivated.

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Each [side in this war] looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the ...

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By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According ...

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As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis—first, because, in the main, it is wrong; and...

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And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will...

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Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

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Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -

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People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be

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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan

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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

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If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

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Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Success

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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.

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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 Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; -- let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.

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It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

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What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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