All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Quote by Abraham Lincoln
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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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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
- I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.
- No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Best Quotes
- Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
- Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
- Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
- Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.
- I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
- It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
- Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.