Thomas Jefferson quotes
11 quotes by Thomas Jefferson. Topics: Business, Famous Quotes, Friendship, Wisdom.
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“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
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“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
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“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
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“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
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“I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
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“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”
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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
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“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”
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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”