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    THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK


    [Illustration: A. Lincoln]




    THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK

    AXIOMS AND APHORISMS FROM THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR

    COMPILED BY _WALLACE RICE_


    COMPILER OF "THE FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK"


    CHICAGO
    A. C. McCLURG & CO.
    1907


    _Copyright, 1907,
    A. C. McClurg & Co._

    _Published October 12, 1907_


    _The Lakeside Press_
    R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
    CHICAGO


    _TO_
    _Francis Fisher Browne_

    _A FOLLOWER OF LINCOLN
    IN WAR AND PEACE
    PRINCIPLE AND PRECEPT_


    _Let us have faith that right makes might_




_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 people
express when they call me "Honest Old Abe."


_FIFTH_

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he
can, never suspecting that anybody is hindering him.


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