Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Life
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
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The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
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Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
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History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
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We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
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The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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Don't spend your money till you have it.
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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
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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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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
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It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
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Power is not alluring to pure minds.
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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
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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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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences and arts which have been made within that period. Some of these have rendered the elements themselves subservient to the purposes of man, have harnessed them to the yoke of his labors and effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble force, and extending the comforts of life to a much enlarged circle, to those who had before known its necessaries only.
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I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
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Of all exercises, walking is the best.
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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