Abraham Quotes
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.
God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.
As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.
Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.