"The general desire of men to live by……" — Thomas Jefferson
"The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery."
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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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More Allurements Quotes
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For who would live if life held no allurements?
— Lewis Howard Latimer
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I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general…
— Alexander Hamilton
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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned.…
— Homer
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My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be…
— David Brainerd
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Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.
— Nicolas Poussin
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many…
— Johann Arndt
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The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even…
— Winston Churchill
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Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by…
— John Calvin
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