You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiat…

Abraham Lincoln
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side. ✨ Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 315-321), 1922.

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