"Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it."

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Source : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

Bruce Catton

#Understanding Quotes #Saws Quotes #Patient Quotes

“It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.293, Penguin
“Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.”

Source : Anna Howard Shaw (2017). “THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA”, p.94, e-artnow
“A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.”
“You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.”

Source : Song: God Favored Me Pt. 1
“life's best balm - Forgetfulness!”
“When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!”
“My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.”
“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.”

Source : Epitaph on his grave in Lancaster, Pensylvania,

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