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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.
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. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
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The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
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[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed what they were fond of before has become indifferent they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
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But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
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There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
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All we can do is to make the best of our friends, love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way what is bad.
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We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
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We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
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