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• It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...
• We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but by the analogy of experience.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincol
• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
  It has been found difficult, and left untried. -- Gilbert K....
• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)...
• He's the biggest lier in Washington," said Lincoln, referring to a then well-known lawyer.
  Reminds me of an old fisherman who got a reputation for stretching the truth....
• I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.
  -- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Addre...
• You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
  -- Abraham Lincol...