"Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences." — Thomas Jefferson
"Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences."
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Thomas Jefferson
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
— Carl Linnaeus
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Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out…
— Unknown Author
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I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.
— Unknown Author
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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