I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONBut 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.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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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 equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
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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 never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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