 I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as...  Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln - Page 159by Abraham Lincoln - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 - 946 pages
...later he wrote to his partner : " Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, as it appears to me." After a while Speed was able to remove him to his own parents' home in Kentucky,... | |
 | 1893 - 902 pages
...closely day and night." At this time Lincoln himself wrote : " I am now the most miserable man living. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die, or be better, as it appears to me." While thus suffering he wrote and published a paper on suicide. But, to the glory... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 288 pages
...not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, as it appears to me. . . I fear I shall be unable to attend to any business here, and a change of scene... | |
 | H. O. Mackey - 1890 - 360 pages
...what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell...impossible ; I must die or be better, it appears to me." 201. Depression. IN a fit of dejection Dean Hook once wrote : " My life has been a failure. I have... | |
 | rev. George Barlow - 1891 - 182 pages
...not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell ; I awfully f orbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible ; I must die or be better." Hope presupposes faith. They cannot exist apart. Hope is the balloon of the soul, soaring majestically... | |
 | 1892 - 672 pages
...I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell...as I am is impossible ; I must die or be better." Hope presupposes faith. They cannot exist apart Hope is the balloon of the soul, soaring majestically... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1892 - 574 pages
...would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better." (') plumage was the symbol of memory. Through all ages, in all lands, the raven has been the emblem... | |
 | charles carleton coffin - 1892 - 654 pages
...not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better." (') plumage was the symbol of memory. Through all ages, in all lands, the raven has been the emblem... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 pages
...not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, as it appears to me. . . I fear I shall be unable to attend to any business here, and a change of scene... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1892 - 408 pages
...not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, as it appears to me. . . I fear I shall be unable to attend to any business here, and a change of scene... | |
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