"All my life I have tried to..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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“The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.”
“It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
“The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.”
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“For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.”
“I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.”
“May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.”
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“Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.”
“We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.”
“Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies”