• Feelings

  A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

  3.6 · 46 votes · 191 reads

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• Society

  All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

  4.6 · 10 votes · 151 reads

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• Various

  All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  4.5 · 40 votes · 100 reads

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• Feelings

  Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

  3.1 · 26 votes · 151 reads

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• Nature

  And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  4.2 · 27 votes · 76 reads

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• Government and Politics

  As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  4.0 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• Nature

  As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

  3.5 · 17 votes · 43 reads

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• Various

  Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  5.0 · 24 votes · 110 reads

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• Various

  Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  3.1 · 54 votes · 0 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

  4.9 · 64 votes · 2 reads

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• Various

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

  4.6 · 61 votes · 78 reads

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• Virtues

  Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  3.7 · 22 votes · 24 reads

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• Nature

  Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  4.1 · 26 votes · 69 reads

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• Society

  Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

  3.5 · 64 votes · 129 reads

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• Feelings

  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 wi

  4.0 · 45 votes · 104 reads

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• Feelings

  Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

  4.0 · 46 votes · 161 reads

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• Defects

  Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

  4.3 · 15 votes · 22 reads

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• Various

  Everybody likes a compliment.

  4.7 · 40 votes · 14 reads

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• Time

  Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

  5.0 · 17 votes · 177 reads

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• Society

  Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

  5.0 · 53 votes · 196 reads

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• Society

  Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  4.8 · 47 votes · 48 reads

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• Society

  Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

  4.5 · 5 votes · 105 reads

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• Nature

  God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

  4.1 · 48 votes · 133 reads

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• Various

  Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

  4.0 · 38 votes · 53 reads

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• Various

  He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

  3.3 · 35 votes · 92 reads

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• Society

  He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.

  3.2 · 39 votes · 146 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

  4.7 · 20 votes · 40 reads

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• Nature

  How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  3.2 · 7 votes · 14 reads

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• Virtues

  I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

  4.7 · 27 votes · 74 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  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 the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

  3.8 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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• Virtues

  I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.

  4.9 · 47 votes · 57 reads

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• Society

  I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

  4.7 · 32 votes · 46 reads

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• Feelings

  I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  4.0 · 31 votes · 180 reads

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• Feelings

  I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

  4.7 · 14 votes · 27 reads

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• Society

  I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  3.7 · 62 votes · 12 reads

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• Feelings

  I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

  4.6 · 36 votes · 153 reads

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• Virtues

  I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  4.6 · 49 votes · 131 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

  4.7 · 36 votes · 104 reads

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• Defects

  I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

  4.6 · 28 votes · 180 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

  3.2 · 50 votes · 101 reads

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