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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. – Thomas Jefferson

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The one happiness is to shut ones door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life. – Eleanora Duse

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If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. – James Smithson

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Id rather see a sermon than hear one any day; Id rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eyes a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but examples always clear. – Edgar A. Guest

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