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We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.
You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, Then it was a good service? Lincoln responded, No. The aide protested, But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant. Yes, replied Lincoln, but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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 already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
