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Everything yields to diligence.
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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[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.
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In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.
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When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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Health is value greater than studying.
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Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
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Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
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If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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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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A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.
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Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
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Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
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Don't spend your money till you have it.
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Victory and defeat are each of the same price.
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Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.
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When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
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Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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