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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. – Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. – Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long…

The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied…

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all. – Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham…

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I…fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never…

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I…fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

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

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

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