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 life.
Abraham Lincoln The Book of Positive Quotations
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I shall try to correct errors win show in to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as a shall appear to be true views.
Abraham Lincoln Power Quotes
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln's Own Stories
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Categories: happiness

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Categories: language

Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln
Categories: laws

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln speech in Washington D.C., 1865
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
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'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln (attributed)
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
Categories: silence

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Categories: success

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
Categories: vices

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
Categories: victory