The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator

By Abraham Lincoln

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 4, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664562593

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was a store owner, postmaster, county surveyor, and lawyer, before sitting in both the House of Representatives and Senate. He was our 16th President, being elected twice, and serving until his assassination in 1865. He is best known for leading the United States through the Civil War, and his anti-slavery stance.

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Abraham Lincoln

The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Table of Contents

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

COMPILED BY

WALLACE RICE

COMPILER OF THE FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK

CHICAGO

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1907

Copyright, 1907,

A. C. McClurg & Co.

Published October 12, 1907

The Lakeside Press

R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY

CHICAGO

TO

Francis Fisher Browne

A FOLLOWER OF LINCOLN

IN WAR AND PEACE

PRINCIPLE AND PRECEPT

Let us have faith that right makes might

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JANUARY

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The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present.

FIRST

Always do the very best you can.

SECOND

If our sense of duty forbids, then let us stand by our sense of duty.

THIRD

It's no use to be always looking up these hard spots.

FOURTH

All I am in the world, I owe to the opinion of me which the people express when they call me Honest Old Abe.

FIFTH

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody is hindering him.

SIXTH

No one has needed favors more than I.

SEVENTH

Whatever is calculated to improve the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, I am for that thing.

EIGHTH

All we want is time and patience.

NINTH

I esteem foreigners as no better than other people—nor any worse.

TENTH

My experience and observation have been that those who promise the most do the least.

ELEVENTH

I didn't know anything about it, but I thought you knew your own