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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
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What this means, and why it matters to a father

Lincoln was largely self-educated and wrote repeatedly to young people asking his advice that inner determination mattered more than circumstance or opportunity.

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