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 JEFFERSONDo you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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