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“If you live for fame, men may turn against you.”
“The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.”
“We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.”
“Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.”
“Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.”
“If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.”
“If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!”
“Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.”