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Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.
– Richard Brookhiser

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  4. Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles. – Richard Brookhiser
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  9. Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts. – Richard Brookhiser
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  11. 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. – Richard Brookhiser
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  22. Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice. – Richard Brookhiser
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  24. He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature. – Richard Brookhiser
  25. To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself. – Richard Brookhiser
  26. Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness. – Richard Brookhiser
  27. She became at once more intimate and more exalted. – Richard Brookhiser
  28. One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense. – Richard Brookhiser
  29. Any man’s life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature. – Richard Brookhiser
  30. As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends. – Richard Brookhiser
  31. Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful. – Richard Brookhiser
  32. Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix. – Richard Brookhiser
  33. It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go. – Richard Brookhiser
  34. Most principles are limp until they are tested. – Richard Brookhiser
  35. Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates. – Richard Brookhiser
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  37. The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs. – Richard Brookhiser
  38. Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. – Shannon L Alder
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  40. If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it. – Dee Henderson

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