...dust, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes: 'All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!' '' She was five feet, five inches high, a slender, pale, sad and sensitive...

...to attend school; altogether he did not go a year. His mother died, which was a great grief to him. "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother; blessings on her memory," he said in after years. He had few books, but delighted to read "/Esop's...

...in the profoundest respect, and said once to an intimate friend, with his eyes suffused with tears: "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory." While at Knob Creek, Abraham went to school a few months, to two different...

...influences had become a part of his being, and he could say as he often said in his later years : " All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her sacred memory." The parents of Abraham were desirous that their children should...

...taste for books. When he was ten years of age she died. She was a noble woman, of whom Lincoln always said: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angelmother; blessings on her memory." Two years later his father married again, and the stepmother...

...and goodness. Years after, when men were looking to him as one who might become a national leader, he said, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother." The wife of a pioneer, she shared the privations and hardships of life in a wilderness. The...

...the good preABRAHAM LINCOLN. cepts in the book. Afterward, when he governed thirty million people, he said, " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Blessings on her memory ! " When he was ten years old, the saintly mother faded like a flower amid...

...heart she had left a grateful and sacred memory. Speaking of her many years after her death, he says, " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory." The recent " Life of Lincoln " by the late TN Arnold shows this mother...

...dust, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes : "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory." Abraham and his sister often sat at her feet to hear of scenes and deeds...

...where she lay was covered with the wreck of the forest and almost hidden, her son was wont to say, " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother." Boys of the present age, turning languidly over the piles of books at their command, would...