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Day Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
- with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to…
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
- Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and…
- Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place…
- Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
- To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and…
- The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)…
- Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition…
- Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent…
- Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
- The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
- On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the…
- It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one…
- Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.
- We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
- The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
- Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
- The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
- All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then…
- The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.
- Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
- The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
- Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
- The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be…
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- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
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- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong