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... the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death . The third is the rapid and near approach of that crisis on which all your thoughts and feelings concentrate .
... the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death . The third is the rapid and near approach of that crisis on which all your thoughts and feelings concentrate .
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Since then it seems to me I should have been entirely happy , but for the never - absent idea that there is one still unhappy whom I have contributed to make so . That still kills my soul . I cannot but reproach myself for even wishing ...
Since then it seems to me I should have been entirely happy , but for the never - absent idea that there is one still unhappy whom I have contributed to make so . That still kills my soul . I cannot but reproach myself for even wishing ...
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If Cass broke his sword , the idea is he broke it in desperation ; I bent the musket by accident . If General Cass went in advance of me in picking huckleberries , I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions .
If Cass broke his sword , the idea is he broke it in desperation ; I bent the musket by accident . If General Cass went in advance of me in picking huckleberries , I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions .
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Public opinion , on any subject , always has a “ central idea , ” from which all its minor thoughts radiate . That " central idea " in our political public opinion at the beginning was , and until recently has continued to be ...
Public opinion , on any subject , always has a “ central idea , ” from which all its minor thoughts radiate . That " central idea " in our political public opinion at the beginning was , and until recently has continued to be ...
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ings of which as a central idea may be the perpetuity of uman slavery , and its extension to all countries and colors . Less than a year ago the Richmond “ Enquirer , ” an avowed dvocate of slavery , regardless of color , in order to ...
ings of which as a central idea may be the perpetuity of uman slavery , and its extension to all countries and colors . Less than a year ago the Richmond “ Enquirer , ” an avowed dvocate of slavery , regardless of color , in order to ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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