“A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.”Analects, Book 1 (Xue Er) · View source
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“God bless us, every one!”A Christmas Carol, Stave Three · View source
“Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are the signs and proprieties of a good man, but really and actually to be such.”Meditations, Book X, section XVIII (Meric Casaubon translation) · View source
“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865 · View source
“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.”Cooper Union Address, 27 February 1860 · View source
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”House Divided Speech, 16 June 1858 · View source
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