Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image