Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Abraham Lincoln

• Human Nature
• Adopted
• Persuasion
• God's Decree

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

  

  Jack Kemp
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• I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

  

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

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• 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
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• 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

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

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Law
  • Really
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• 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
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• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  

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

  

  William Cowper
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• Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Tears

• 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.
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  • Compassion
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• The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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  • Unwilling

• The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

  

  James Cook
  • Laws
  • Human Nature
  • Social Planners

• Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Integrity

• In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rules
  • Consider
  • Human Nature

• Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Human Nature
  • Adopted
  • Persuasion