Quotation by Abraham Lincoln

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. Letter to George C. Latham, July 22, 1860. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4, p. 87, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).

To a young man rejected by a college.
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