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Title: Abraham Lincoln : his life
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Goldsmith, Marcus A
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Goldsmith Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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lurking nearby. John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor, hadquietly crept into the box, pistol in one handand a dagger in the other. Suddenly a reportrang out. And one of the noblest men thatever lived was lain low. Abraham Lincoln was carried to a houseacross the street, surgeons were summoned,but to no avail. At dawn, April 15, his soulpassed to the great beyond. 4.T His words, his deeds, the good he wrought,Will live forever in the thoughtOf all eternity. 46 THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN In Memoriam Sorrow swept through the land. North andSouth alike mourned the loss that was theirs. The funeral service was held in the East Roomof the White House. Lincoln was buried in Springfield, 111. We of this later day who read of the lofty aims,the noble thoughts, the unselfish purposes ofAbraham Lincoln can let his life inscribe in ourthoughts those words of Longfellow: Lives of great men, all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. 47
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Noble Thoughts and Ex-tracts from the Speechesand Letters of AbrahamLincoln Half finished work generally proves to belabor lost. 50 EXTRACTS from SPEECHES and LETTERS From an Appeal for the Improvement ofthe Sangamon River Delivered in State Legislature March 1, 1832. Time and experience have verified to ademonstration the public utility of internal im-provements. That the poorest and most thin-ly populated countries would be greatly bene-fited by the opening of good roads, and in theclearing of navigable streams within theirlimits, is what no person will deny. Yet it isfolly to undertake works of this or any otherkind without first knowing that we are ableto finish them—as half-finished work generallyproves to be labor lost. There cannot justly beany objection to having railroads and canals,any more than to other good things, providedthey cost nothing. The only objection is topaying for them; and the objection arises fromthe want of ability to pay. 51 I go for admitting allof suffr

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