Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

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Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

Abraham Lincoln

1865

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Topic

Friends and enemies Friends Enemies

Statement type

Advice

Time

1865

Person

Abraham Lincoln

Provenance

Current citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Quoted by Mary Todd in an interview with William H. Herndon, Sept. 1866. Herndon's Informants, edited by Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis. University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Original citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Quoted by Mary Todd in Herndon's Informants. Interview with William H. Herndon. Sept. 1866.

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Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship. — Abraham Lincoln

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