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 JEFFERSONNever buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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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 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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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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