Creative Quotations from . . .
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) born on
Feb 12
US president, lawyer. He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote "Emancipation Proclamation," and "Gettysburg Address," 1863.
         
   
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F
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.

R
Wanting to work is so rare a want that it should be encouraged.
A
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
N
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
K
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: (23 Dec. 1863) Attr. by J. Hay, Letters, Vol. i. p. 142
R: In "The Executives Quotation Book," ed. by James Charlton, 1993.
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