“If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.”
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Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
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Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
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Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
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The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
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