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

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am...

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new...

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I...

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can...

Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can...

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever...

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever...

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to...

Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to...

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe...

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe...

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man...

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man...

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

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

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

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and...

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very new...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very new...

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The...

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first...

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts