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Others About Nature
“He Played on a Boy’s Harp all the Way”
By Henry C. Whitney, 1854-10-25
“Mr. Lincoln is as simple as a child”
May 23, 1860
“He Jumped up and Said, With a Boyish Manner”
By Thomas Thatcher Graves , April 4, 1865
“He was as Guileless in some Respects as a Child”
By David D. Porter , 1865
“He was as Guileless and Single-hearted as a Child”
By Egbert L. Viele, May 5, 1862
“He Admired the Strength of its Trunk”
By Marquis de Chambrun , April 8, 1865
“He was so Simple, so Child-like, so Sincere”
By John B. Alley
“He was Playful and Sportive as a Child”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 26, 1861
“I Reckon it’s him”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 19, 1856
Others About Sympathy
“Send him to her, By all Means”
April 14. 1864
“I Plucked a Thistle and Planted a Flower”
By Joshua Fry Speed, Feb. 24 1865
“If I cannot Find some Excuse”
By Leonard Swett, January 17, 1866
“I am going to Pardon that Young Soldier”
By John B. Alley，January 26, 1865
“I have two, and You have None”
1863
“His Whole Face Showing Sympathetic Feeling”
By John S. Barnes, March 25, 1865
“Saying a Friendly Word to each Wounded Man”
By Francis B. Carpenter,By Marquis de Chambrun, April 8, 1865
“My Heart is Like Lead within me”
November 18, 1863
“Not Returning the Salute of the Sentinel Before the Door”
October 21, 1861
“This was a Step From the Sublime”
By David D. Porter, April 1, 1865.
“You ‘ll be Taken Good Care Of”
By Horace Porter, April 1, 1865.
“I Could not have Slept well to-night”
By Joshua Fry Speed
“If I have one Vice”
By Egbert L. Viele, May 5, 1862.
Other Works
Response to Serenade (April 10, 1865)
April 10, 1865
To the Senate and House of Representatives
May 26, 1862
“Work, Work, Work, is the Main Thing”
Sep. 25. 1860
Others About President
To the Senate and House of Representatives
May 26, 1862
“He was Not at all Ashamed of”
By David D. Porter , 1865
“How could one Avoid Liking Such a Man”
By David D. Porter , 1865
“He Really Seemed of another World”
By David D. Porter , April 4, 1865
“I Confess I Rather Like it myself”
By William T. Sherman , July 23, 1861
“There was No Triumph in his Gesture or Attitude”
By John S. Barnes, April 4, 1865
“He Jumped up and Said, With a Boyish Manner”
By Thomas T. Graves , April 4, 1865
“It was Impossible to Detect in him the Slightest Feeling of Pride”
By Marquis de Chambrun , April 6, 1865
“It is no Pleasure to Me to Triumph over any One”
November 8, 1864
“Not a Word of Triumph, Not a Gesture of Victory”
November 10, 1864
“Lincoln Took the Matter very Calmly”
By Noah Brooks, November 8, 1864
“Let them Have their Horses to Plow With”
By David D. Porter, March 28, 1865
“Leave them their Guns to Shoot Crows With”
By David D. Porter, April 5, 1865
“He Shook his Hands as if Scaring Sheep”
By Gideon Welles, April 14, 1865
“Spoke Very Kindly of General Lee and Others”
By Edwin M. Stanton , April 14, 1865
“There Was No Hatred in Lincoln’s Heart”
By Dale Carnegie
“He Could Not Understand”
Statesman
“It Won’t do to Put That Young Man in the Cabinet”
By Newton Bateman， May 19, 1860
In the Spring of 1849,By Thomas H. Nelson
June 13, 1849
Journalist
“He is not of Age”
By Noah Brooks, November 8, 1864
“Lincoln Took the Matter very Calmly”
By Noah Brooks, November 8, 1864
“Since I Came into this Place”
By Noah Brooks
“The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor”
By John L. Scripps
Others About Modesty
David D. Porter, Admiral, US Navy
“You Can’t Put a Long Blade into a Short Scabbard”
By David D. Porter， April 1. 1865
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“But It is Well to be Humble”
By David D. Porter , April 4, 1865
_AL1_Day1-1865-04-04-General-Porter,David D.-Incidents-294-Modesty1,Humor1-But It is Well to be Humble
“You can cast off the name of slave and trample”
By David D. Porter , April 4, 1865
_AL1_Day1-1865-04-04-General-Porter,David D.-Incidents-295-Modesty1,Humor1-You can cast off the name of slave and trample
“It was not Best to Swap Horses when Crossing Streams”
June 9, 1864 June 27, 1864
_AL2_Works2-1864-06-09-Artist-Carpenter,Francis B.-Six-166-Modesty0,Humor0-not best to swap horses
_AL1_Day1-1864-06-09-Artist-Carpenter,Francis B.-Six-166-Modesty1,Humor1-trying to swap
“It won’t Scour”
November 19, 1863
_AL1_Day1-1863-11-19-Lawyer-Lamon,Ward H.-Recollections-173-Modesty1,Humor1-It won’t scour
“I am Not Very Strong on Grammar”
By Newton Bateman, May, 1860
_AL1_Day1-1860-05-Statesman-Bateman,Newton-address-30-Modesty1,Honesty1-grammar,is not my stronghold
“Since I Came into this Place”
By Noah Brooks
“You were Right, and I was Wrong”
July 13, 1863
“There was No Triumph in his Gesture or Attitude”
By John S. Barnes, April 4, 1865
“He Jumped up and Said, With a Boyish Manner”
By Thomas T. Graves , April 4, 1865
“It was Impossible to Detect in him the Slightest Feeling of Pride”
By Marquis de Chambrun , April 6, 1865
“It is no Pleasure to Me to Triumph over any One”
November 8, 1864
“Not a Word of Triumph, Not a Gesture of Victory”
November 10, 1864
“Lincoln Took the Matter very Calmly”
By Noah Brooks, November 8, 1864
“The Wording of his Acceptance was Remarkably Cool”
March 1, 1865
“Not Entirely a Failure”
November 19, 1863
“Lincoln Put these Humble People at their Easy”
January 30, 1861
“I Reckon It’s him”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 19, 1856
“There is not Much of Me”
Dec 20, 1859
Letter to General Grant （April 30, 1864）
April 30, 1864
“You were Right, and I was Wrong”
July 13, 1863
Lawyer
“He was the Most Indulgent Parent I have Ever Known”
By William H. Herndon
“This Blade at the Point Travels Rapidly”
By William H. Herndon
“I’ve Read Enough of it”
By William H. Herndon
“He Read Less and Thought More than any Man”
By William H. Herndon
“Hadn’t we Better Withdraw that Plea”
By William H. Herndon
Lincoln’s Talent Comes From His Twenty Years Of Practicing Law.
“He Looked Carefully over all the Papers”
“Reluctant to Publish their Failures”
“All that I am or ever Hope to be I Owe to Her”
Letter to William Herndon (July 10, 1848)
“He was Playful and Sportive as a Child”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 26, 1861
“He had Hidden the Loud”
By Henry C. Whitney, June 17, 1856
“He Played on a Boy’s Harp all the Way”
By Henry C. Whitney, 1854-10-25
“I Reckon it’s him”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 19, 1856
“If I cannot Find some Excuse”
By Leonard Swett, January 17, 1866
“His Love of Fun”
By Leonard Swett, January 17, 1866