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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -
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Top 5 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day."
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
Top 5 quotes from Virtue
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!"
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle."
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
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