Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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