Mary Todd Lincoln Quotes

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

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#2. I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.

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#3. Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

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#4. I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

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

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

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#7. My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

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#8. Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

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#12. No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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