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Precepts Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree…
- I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
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- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the… — Thomas Jefferson
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- The icy precepts of respect. — William Shakespeare
- We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts. — George Herbert
- The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger