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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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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When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.
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I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
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It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.
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If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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Without books, I would certainly die.
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Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
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Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
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The Bible makes the best people in the world.
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The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
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Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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