The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor maintain it keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.
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