Quotes By Author: Abraham Lincoln
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.”
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”
“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.–as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”
“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”
“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
“A house divided cannot stand.”
“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”