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We never repent of having eaten too little.
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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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
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We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.
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The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
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The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.
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I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
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