Save![After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner]](https://quotes.cx/wp-content/uploads/quotes/1/2/Ronald-C-White-Jr--Quote-121919.jpg "After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner]")
After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] “How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived.
