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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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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Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
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Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.
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I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
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I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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