#own

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#assuring #build #built #diligently #down

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#affairs #conduct #desire #down #earth

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#defense #despotism #destroy #doors #everywhere

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#growing #how #matter #own #tall

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks. ↗

— Bai Ling

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Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. ↗

— Richard Linklater

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