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While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
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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The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
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Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.
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Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
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Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
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So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.
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The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.
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We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
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I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.
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The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.
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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.
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The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
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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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What i value more than all things, good humor.
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The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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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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