...us see what was his early training at home. That great man of the nation, Abraham Lincoln, said, " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother." A pious parentage, though not requisite to salvation, is important. The father of Henry...

...dust, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory ! " Here was the home and here were its occupants, all humble,...

...spoke of her with deep feeling and grateful affection. He said, with his eyes' suffused with tears, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Before Abraham was eight years old, the family moved to Spencer county, Indiana. This...

...us see what was his early training at home. That great man of the nation, Abraham Lincoln, said, " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother." A pious parentage, though not requisite to salvation, is important. The father of Henry...

...spoke of her with deep feeling and grateful affection. He said, with his eyes suffused with tears, " All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Before Abraham was eight years old, the family moved to Spencer county, Indiana. This...

...was moulded by a noble, Christian mother. He said of her, after her death, with tears in his eyes, " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." He early became a reader, devouring every book he could find. When 21 years old he engaged...

...years later his mother died, the mother of whom in after years, with tears in his eyes, he said : " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." Her grave lies, unmarked, near the village of Gentry ville, Spencer county, Indiana;...

...After he had acquired great fame, while in conversation with a friend he said, with tears in his eyes, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." It has been said that the foregoing remark was made concerning his step-mother, but...

...be presumption to say. We know his own words, uttered with a quivering voice and a tearful eye — "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory"; and we err not in saying that it is her shadow, as well...

...dust, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes: 'All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!' '' She was five feet, five inches high, a slender, pale,...