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  • In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

    Grief   Silence   Tears  
  • He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.

    Angel   Land   Cities  
  • Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

    Rain   Fall   States  
  • Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom

    Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc
  • My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

    Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc
  • If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

  • My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

  • Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

    Atheism   Usual   No Hope  
  • Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

    Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc
  • I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

    Men   House   Good Man  
  • I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

    "Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters".
  • I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.

  • No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

    Path   Placement   Knows  
  • No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

    People   Waste  
  • Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

    Morning   Husband   Lakes  
    Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc
  • Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

  • These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

    Spiritual   Past   Soul  
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Mary Todd Lincoln

  • Born: December 13, 1818
  • Died: July 16, 1882
  • Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States