Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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.
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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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We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
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The dead should not rule the living.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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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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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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