"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Lincoln, Abraham on the future
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"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambition   

"God must love the common man, he made so many of them."

Lincoln, Abraham on humankind
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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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."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to."

Twain, Mark on blush
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"Wealth unused might as well not exist."

Aesop on wealth
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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places."

Twain, Mark on commitment
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"Never do wrong when people are looking."

Twain, Mark on wrong
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"Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work."

Twain, Mark on work
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"I do not like work even when someone else does it."

Twain, Mark on work
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on joy
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"Familiarity breeds contempt; and children."

Twain, Mark on familiarity
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Little by little does the trick."

Aesop on things and little things
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberalism
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Adams, John on education
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"Please all, and you will please none."

Aesop on approval
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"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office."

Aesop on respectability
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