It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
- Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
- The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
- I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Best Quotes
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- The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
- Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
- Junk food drags you down.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
- Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.