Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to an

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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Daughters
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I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? – Thomas Jefferson

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War
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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson

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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while. – Henry David Thoreau

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Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer. – Muhammad Ali

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good

Ive learnt that through life you just get on with it. Youre going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies. – Roger Moore

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor mens cottage princes palaces. – William Shakespeare

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The first sin in our universe was Lucifers self conceit. – Thomas Carlyle

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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. – Voltaire

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

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Id rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, its probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased. – Jack Nicklaus

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