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A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
[ Coward and Cowardice ]
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
[ Happiness ]
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
[ Life and Living ]
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And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
[ Bankers and Banking ]
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But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
[ Opinions ]
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
[ Vigilance ]
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
[ Innovation ]
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
[ Happiness ]
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
[ Honesty ]
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How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
[ Worry ]
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I cannot live without books.
[ Books - Reading ]
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.
[ Newspapers ]
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
[ Luck ]
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
[ Government ]
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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
[ Money ]
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
[ Dreams ]
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
[ Generals ]
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
[ Injustice ]
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
[ Luck ]
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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
[ Principles ]
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Information is the currency of democracy.
[ Information ]
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
[ Truth ]
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
[ Occupation ]
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
[ Age and Aging ]
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
[ Government ]
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
[ Procrastination ]
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
[ Economy and Economics ]
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
[ President ]
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
[ Alliances ]
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.
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Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
[ Pride ]
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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
[ Tyranny ]
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
[ Ridicule ]
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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
[ Speech ]
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.
[ Labor ]
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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
[ Taste ]
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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
[ Government ]
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The advertisements are the most truthful part of a newspaper.
[ Newspapers ]
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
[ Liberty ]
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the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
[ Liberty ]
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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
[ Truth ]
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
[ Newspapers ]
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
[ Brevity ]
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