Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
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Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.
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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
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The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
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I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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