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68 quotes (Page 1 of 3 pages)A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Coward and Cowardice
Thomas Jefferson
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Happiness
Thomas Jefferson
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Life and Living
Thomas Jefferson
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And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson
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Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Bankers and Banking
Thomas Jefferson
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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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Thomas Jefferson
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Pleasure
Thomas Jefferson
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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Opinions
Thomas Jefferson
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Vigilance
Thomas Jefferson
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Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
Innovation
Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Happiness
Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Honesty
Thomas Jefferson
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How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
Worry
Thomas Jefferson
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I cannot live without books.
Books - Reading
Thomas Jefferson
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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
Thomas Jefferson
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Luck
Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
Government
Thomas Jefferson
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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
Money
Thomas Jefferson
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Dreams
Thomas Jefferson
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Generals
Thomas Jefferson
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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Injustice
Thomas Jefferson
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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
Thomas Jefferson
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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Principles
Thomas Jefferson
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Information is the currency of democracy.
Information
Thomas Jefferson
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Truth
Thomas Jefferson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun