"Strength is made perfect in weakness."

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"We know in part, and we prophesy in part."

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"We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done."

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"All nations and kindreds and tongues."

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"Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them."

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"To keep my hands from picking and stealing."

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"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part."

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"With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow."

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"Men to be of one mind in an house."

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"Whose service is perfect freedom."

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"In the midst of life we are in death."

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"To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me."

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"Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection."

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"An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace."

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"The world, the flesh, and the devil."

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"The pomps and vanity of this wicked world."

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"Show thy servant the light of thy countenance."

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"The iron entered into his soul."

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"To love, cherish, and to obey."

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"But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend."

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"Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace."

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"The kindly fruits of the earth."

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"The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Renounce the Devil and all his works."

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"Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but God knows When"

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"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."

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"I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

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"Whatever Spiteful fools may Say — Each jealous, ranting yelper — No woman ever played the whore Unless She had a man to help her."

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"Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read"

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"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."

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"I am mighty near one."

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"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me."

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"The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves."

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"In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort which reconciles them to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces. It is not the kind to get to heaven on."

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"... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing."

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"Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much."

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"They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will leave them their guns to shoot crows with and their horses to plow with. It would do no harm."

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"The severest justice may not always be the best policy."

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"Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them."

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"Believing that these propositions, and the [conclusions] I draw from them can not be successfully controverted, I, for the present, assume their correctness, and proceed to try to show, that the abandonment of the protective policy by the American Government, must result in the increase of both useless labour, and idleness; and so, in pro[por]tion, must produce want and ruin among our people."

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"May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers."

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"Military glory, — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood."

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."

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"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."

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"This is a world of compensation; and he would be no slave must consent to have no slaves. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."

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"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

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"I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured."

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"No, leave it as a monument."

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"In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable — almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority simply because it is the will of the majority."

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