30 quotes found
“The towering genius is not apolitical.”
“Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.”
“Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.”
“Most principles are limp until they are tested.”
“She became at once more intimate and more exalted.”
“Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.”
“Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.”
“Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.”
“God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.”
“A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.”
“Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.”
“He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.”
“Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for ...”
“To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.”
“Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.”
“One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.”
“Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.”
“It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.”
“Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.”
“Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.”
“Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.”
