“He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.”
More from Abraham Lincoln on Wisdom
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”
“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?”
“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.”
“I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is but it does not admit of holidays.”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to...”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“Honesty's the best policy.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Do not waste your pity on a scamp.”
Confucius
19 quotes“If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.”
William Penn
14 quotes“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be...”