Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
— The Gettysburg Address
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Where this quote comes from
Lincoln wrote this in a letter of 5 November 1855 to Isham Reavis, a young man who wanted to become a lawyer. Lincoln tells him that being determined is more than half the work. He had trained without a teacher himself, reading books in New Salem, a village of fewer than three hundred people, and says that books are the same wherever you read them.
Source: Letter to Isham Reavis, 5 November 1855
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