Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
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When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson
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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson