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Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.
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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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.
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No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
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The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
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Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
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It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.
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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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Health is the requisite after morality
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.
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Without books, I would certainly die.
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