Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Inspirational
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
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Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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Health is worth more than learning.
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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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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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
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In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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What we learn to do, we learn by doing.
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
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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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
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