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Quote DB :: Authors :: Abraham Lincoln :: View Quote View Quote "But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Abraham Lincoln Listed in: God, Pride Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.64  Rate Quote 25 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links 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." "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." "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." Top 5 quotes from God, Pride "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man." "But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals." "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

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