...Deliberation. "Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time." — From first inaugural speech. Mother. "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory." — Holland's Life of Lincoln, p. 23. Union Predicted. "The mystic cords...

...impressions of their earliest days. " All that I am," said the martyr Lincoln with tears in his eyes ; " all that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Blessings on her memory!" And yet she died before he was ten years old. Irving, when a child, was taken...

...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...

...reverence God. These lessons he never forgot. Long afterward, when he was known as a very great man, he said: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." III.—THE NEW MOTHER The log house, which Abraham Lincoln called his home, was now more lonely and...

...lessons he never forgot. Long afterward, when the world had come to know him as a very great man, he said : " All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel inother." III. — THE NEW MOTHER. The log house, which Abraham Lincoln called his home, was now more...

...always obeyed, were never to swear, never to touch liquor, and never to lie. He said, when President : " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my sainted mother." After his mother's death Lincoln's father removed to Indiana and afterward to Illinois....

...his mother. ' ' Later in life when the delicate form of his mother remained but as a sweet memory, he said: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." He was not long permitted, however, to enjoy the devotions of a mother. She died when her son was only...

...wilderness to preach the funeral sermon for Nancy Hanks, of whom Abraham Lincoln said in after years . " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. Blessings on her memory." ...

...wilderness to preach the funeral sermon for Nancy Hanks, of whom Abraham Lincoln said in after years . " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. Blessings on her memory." 14 DAY USE RETURN TO DESK FROM WHICH BORROWED LOAN DEPT. This book is due...

...Lincoln. His mother died when he was nine years old. Yet, after he had become President, he said of her, " All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory." On Sundays Mrs. Lincoln would gather her children around her and read...