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Abraham Lincoln on fatherhood, character, and how to live

4 sourced quotes from Abraham Lincoln, each with the original work, the year, and links to a primary or scholarly source you can check yourself. Selected for what they say to a man raising children.

“You can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.”
Letter to George Latham, July 22, 1860, 1860
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
Letter to Isham Reavis, November 5, 1855, 1855
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we…”
Second Inaugural Address, 1865
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”
The Gettysburg Address (Bliss copy), 1863

The right words for exactly where you are right now.

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Works quoted here: Letter to George Latham, July 22, 1860, Letter to Isham Reavis, November 5, 1855, Second Inaugural Address, The Gettysburg Address (Bliss copy).