My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Quote by Abraham Lincoln
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
- With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
- It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
- If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
- I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
- It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
- My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Best Quotes
- Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
- I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
- There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
- I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.