JANUARY
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 peopleexpress when they call me "Honest Old Abe."
FIFTH
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way hecan, 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 themost do the least.
ELEVENTH
I didn't know anything about it, but I thought you knew your ownbusiness best.
TWELFTH
If I send a man to buy a horse for me, I expect him to tell me hispoints—not how many hairs there are in his tail.
THIRTEENTH
You must act.
FOURTEENTH
I will try, and do the best I can.
FIFTEENTH
His attitude is such that, in the very selfishness of his nature, hecan not but work to be successful!
SIXTEENTH
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