When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.Abraham Lincoln
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matter for that I have determined for myself. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln. Salmon P. Chase, diary entry for September 22, 1862, Diary and Correspondence of Salmon P Chase, p. 88 (1903, reprinted 1971). According to the Chase account, Lincoln spoke these words at a cabinet meeting he had called to inform the members of his decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This quotation is also used in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln The War Years, p. 584 (1939). Although these words are not used, the same thought is conveyed in the diary of another member of Lincoln's cabinet, Gideon Welles. See his diary entry for the same date in Diary of Gideon Welles, vol. 1, pp. 142-43 (1911).
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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