Thomas Jefferson

(52 votes)   A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

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(52 votes)   Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(52 votes)   Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(52 votes)   I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(52 votes)   On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(52 votes)   So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Thomas Jefferson

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(51 votes)   I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(50 votes)   A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(50 votes)   A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(50 votes)   But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(50 votes)   But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

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(49 votes)   Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(49 votes)   I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(48 votes)   Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(48 votes)   I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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