Addresses, Educational and PatrioticH. W. Wilson Company, 1910 - 533 páginas |
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Página 344 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting.place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
Página 448 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 488 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 314 - He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.
Página 314 - If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing...
Página 273 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 314 - Beware of little expenses ; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says ; and again, Who dainties love shall beggars prove ; and moreover, Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Página 314 - What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy. Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Página 77 - I have heard an experienced counsellor say, that he never. feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
Página 289 - Your modesty equals your valor, and that surpasses the power of any language I possess.