"Power is not alluring to pure minds." — Thomas Jefferson
"Power is not alluring to pure minds."
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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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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you…
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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your…
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring…
— Albert Einstein
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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful…
— Philip J. Davis
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The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
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Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and…
— Unknown Author
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To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
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A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to…
— Julie B. Beck
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Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they…
— Judith Wright
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I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent…
— Gautama Buddha
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