- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples - the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreaming men are haunted men.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
- Rise
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- Nov 07, 2020
You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020