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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Thomas Jefferson

The more wit the less courage.

Thomas Fuller

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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Thomas Hobbes

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Thomas Carlyle

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Thomas Tusser

Ot two evils, the lesser is always to be chosen.

Thomas à Kempis

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Thomas à Kempis

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

Thomas.jefferson

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

I cannot live without books.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The more wit the less courage.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Beware the man of one book.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

Ot two evils, the lesser is always to be chosen.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.