Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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