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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pi

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. – Thomas Jefferson

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. – Henry Ward Beecher

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There are no gains without pains. – Benjamin Franklin

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are. – John Dryden

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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – William Cullen Bryant

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