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 JEFFERSON
Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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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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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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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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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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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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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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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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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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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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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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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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