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| 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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| When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. |
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| When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. |
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| When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. |
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| When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government - that is despotism |
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| When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run |
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| Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. |
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| Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail |
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| Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. |
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| Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? |
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| Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self interest |
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| With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. |
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| With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in |
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| With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting pea |
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| With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. |
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| With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase |
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| With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die |
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| Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword, |
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| You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. |
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