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.
THOMAS JEFFERSONNever put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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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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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.
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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.
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Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.
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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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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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