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
- If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one
- If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
- I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Best Quotes
- The good is the beautiful.
- I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
- Poetry is a freedom of choice and economy of voice.
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
- I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
- The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
- I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- If indeed there's life after death, I sure will still be a poet.
- Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.