How much pain they have cost us,
by Thomas Jefferson
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Sayings by Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Thomas Jefferson
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
The good opinion of mankind,
like the lever of Archimedes,
with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- 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
Much Sayings
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
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