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“Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has”
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“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right”
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
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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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“I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me”
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“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax”
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“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
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“In regards to this great Book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.”
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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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“Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.”
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