SimplyNeo Quotes

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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