 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 996 pages
...wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young, and unknown to many of you. I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pages
...wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young, and unknown to many of you. I was born, and have ever remained, in the most humble walks... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1906 - 598 pages
...contained in the closing paragraph. " Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. " Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall sutceed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young, and unknown to many of you.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...me. However, upon the subjects of which I have treated I have spoken as I have thought. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." His opponents made fun of his appearance wherever he spoke ; and it must be confessed that there was... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1888 - 718 pages
...shall be ready to renounce them. (Address to the people of Sangamon County in 1832 or 1833.) Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. (Address to the people of Sangamon County, 1832 or 1833.) The institution of slavery is founded on... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 544 pages
...wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young, and unknown to many of you. I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of... | |
 | Charles Wallace French - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 414 pages
...wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. . . . Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. . . . I was born, and have ever remained, in the most humble walks of life. I have no wealthy or powerful relations... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 pages
...wrong, so soon as I discover my .opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young and unknown, to many of you ; I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young, and unknown to many of you. I was born, and have ever remained, in the most humble walks... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous I shall be ready to renounce them. Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether...gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. I am young and unknown to many of you ; I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of... | |
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying... 
