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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
[ Honor ]
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
[ Charity ]
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
[ Persuasion ]
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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
[ Persuasion ]
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When I am 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 about him and what he is going to say.
[ Listening ]
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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.
[ Respectability ]
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
[ Will ]
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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
[ Danger ]
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Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
[ Victory ]
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
[ Common Sense ]
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Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
[ Self Esteem ]
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
[ Democracy ]
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
[ Democracy ]
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
[ Humor ]
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
[ Responsibility ]
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
[ Confidence ]
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The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.
[ Enemies ]
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
[ Procrastination ]
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
[ Appearance ]
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The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
[ Appearance ]
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