"You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds,..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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“While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.”
“Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men”
“My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.”
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“No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.”
“One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.”
“Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.”