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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

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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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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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besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.
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The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.
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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.
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Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
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the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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