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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

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Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

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Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

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Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

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Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment

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