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"Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village."
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"You can endure every hardship with hope."
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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."
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"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."
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"The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength."
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"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."
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"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
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"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."
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"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."
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"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"You cannot break me. My spirit is stronger."
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"It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly."
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"The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results."
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"Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress."
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"Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them."
Politics
"Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career."
Career
"In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction."
Politics
"It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation."
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"The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation."
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"Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry."
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"It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank."
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