Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

Abraham Lincoln

• Human Nature
• Declaration of Independence
• Missouri Compromise

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• Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Eyes

• I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Work
  • Why
  • Hate

• I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Power
  • Courage
  • Spirit

• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Control
  • Drug

• Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understand
  • Philosophy

• I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Moments

• Nothing really compares to the original 'Law & Order.'

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Law
  • Really
  • Compares

• I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • She

• Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Up
  • She
  • Sky

• It looks good. I think the dog will be happy.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Happy
  • Dog

• But in order for it to happen there has to be an urgent change of direction to deliver the peace, democracy and other civil liberties that the people of Nepal want and need.

  

  Javier Solana
  • People
  • Change
  • Peace

• If you have never failed you have never lived.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Lived
  • Failed

• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Virtue

• True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Good Samaritan

• Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Good Men
  • Perpetuate

• Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Work
  • Curse
  • Drudgery

• After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Know
  • Alone
  • Learn

• LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Eyes
  • Human Nature
  • Doubtless

• The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.

  

  David McIntosh
  • Prayer
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Sale

• I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Human Nature
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Missouri Compromise